Profile: NeonNero

Personal background
I'm a Norwegian guy that has currently aged 26 years, and I'm a computer technical person currently working with designing websites and web-based software, as well as tech admin for several Linux and Windows based servers. I have a passion for science-fiction and action movies, as well as a great passion for music. This is why I've previously done some DJ'ing on an Internet radio station called ErrorFM (I stopped doing this in late 2002 due to time constraints on my part). Please do read more about me, my opinions and my experiences on www.neonnero.com. Enjoy!
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
As I said in my personal profile above, I have a great deal of interest in movies of the science-fiction genre. This is because I do believe there's intelligent life out there somewhere, it's just that we don't know exactly where or how to contact them properly yet. I also believe that they may have visited us out of plain curiosity for Earth's many species. After all, isn't that exactly what we'd do if we ever came to visit another planet? Take samples, study the alien life and such? We've all heard of the many reports of visits from outer space, and there just has to be something to it all. They've studied us for many generation, and SETI is our first step in our quest for outer-world contact. I believe that by running SETI@home on my home computer, I'm helping mankind making it's first step to Earth's future interplanetary relations. I've even set up the command-line edition on my old 486 computer, just to let it use some of its CPU power. Of course, many of the science-fiction movies do let out a sense of horror and possibly hostility towards the outer-world visitors ("Independence Day" with Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum is a good example), but they can't all be bad, can they? I don't believe they come to a new world just trying to start a war. Sending out a homing beacon may be a part of the next step of the future in regards to seeking out new lifeforms and new civilizations. Once we've found 1 definite proof of intelligent life, I believe it's time for transmitting a beacon. This beacon needs to be filled with short-hand information about us, preferably using the principles used in "Contact" (starring Jodie Foster). Establishing contact with the simplest forms of mathematic, then presenting ourselves with our location, what we look like, what atmospheric conditions we have (presented by the periodic table of elements), etc. In short, who we are, where we are, and what we're like (from an outsider's point of view). Pretty much repeating the information plaque sent along with Voyager.
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