Profile: Enigma

Personal background
Hello there,

I was born in 1963 and I am a web designer. I am interested in astronomy and its appertaining philosophical questions.

Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
With the multitude of stars that can be viewed on any clear night overhead, the chances of us being the only life form in the entire universe are in fact extremely small.



I would not dare to speculate on whether or not these life forms in question actually do possess the technical ability to send out radio signals, a feat which took our own species millions and millions of years to achieve. We have been sending out radio transmissions for a mere 100 years now, thus the most promising means to search for life seems to boldly go where no man has gone before ;-)



As for a beacon for ETI's: This has already been done before; if memory serves, the information that was sent in the experiment was sufficient to give "them" a general idea of where to find us and the most basic things of life on earth.



Even if SETI@home should yield no results in the end, the scientific value cannot be overestimated. After all, a negative result is, scientifically viewed, also a result.



I run SETI@home because I do not want my computer run idle when I do not use it. I do explicitely not want any fame from an eventual find, because I think that this is too egocentric a point of view. Mankind should start to act, and more important, think, in global dimensions. We have had enough tribal quarrels over god images already.
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