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| Personal background |
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I am 28 years old. Married without kids (yet...)
I live in Israel, and I am a student at BGU (Ben Gurion University) at Beer Sheva.
I am graduated in Mechanical Engineering, and I am now studying toward a Master degree (M.Sc) in Physics, under the supervision of Prof. Aharon Davidson.
I do not have a computer...sounds weard he?
I had one at my dad's house from before my wedding (almost 4 years ago) and I always kept my seti active. But now, I do not have the computer anymore, and my dad isn't realy interested by the internet.
But I managed to convince him to connect, so he can send and recieve emails from his freinds, and I explained him how he has to click the little icon when it turns red and green...so then, about once a month (unfortunatly, only once a month) he sent the results that the computer had calculated. (When I was there, it was a few times a week...)
Recently, he got connected the online internet, so the software sends the results automaticaly. But since it's a slow computer (Pentium 3 500Mhz), it's only from time to time...
I hope to have again a computer - maybe next year, and I'll be able to reparticipate at this fantastic research fully as I used to.
Long live science.
That's what it's all about.
Ilan Brami
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I don't know if there are any ETs out there. But I know, that there may be. There is actually scientificaly a good chance that life exists, and even maybe intelligent life (no way for us to know about non-intelligent forms of life).
On the other hand, our chances to connect with those possible aliens is more or less zero, for a very simple reason, even if we have very very very increadebly close neighbors at - for example - 1000 light year. Well, if we recieve their message, and send them an answer, they will get it only 2000 years after they have sent the original message...the same time that has passed since Jesus to today... The only benefit from knowing other life forms is - for me - the idea (amasing one) that we are not along on this world. It is such an amasing thing to know (if we will know it) that other lifes exist.It will make us look at our world in a very different way. Though....
I run seti at home for 2 main reasons:
a) The tiny possibility to get some message from out there...althougt (as I explained) it is very small...it still exists! And if it doesn't ask from me any sacrifice but to let my PC on, then why not try it anyway.
b) I - as someone that loves science and learns it - like the idea of using computing power for science purposes when this potential power is not used, even if it is for something quite impossible. It makes me fell that we can use so much tools in order to advance the world, even if we won't eventualy find ETs (and I have to confess - althought the chances are low, somehow I beleive that we will find something... :-) )
I belive that basic maths stuff should be send, since this should be the most understandable thing for ETs scientists.
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