Profile: Lorenzo Meroli

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NAME: Lorenzo Meroli

AGE: 42

HOME: Brescia, Italy

WHY DO I DO SETI PROJECT:
Because Fox Mulder said "I want to believe, because the truth is out there..."

INTERESTS:
Oh my God! They are as many as the stars in the sky! I'm curious about all human knowledge... particularly astrophysics, chemistry, medicine, surgery and... the women!

THE TWO TRUTHS (FOR ME):
1. The curiosity is the knowledge's engine
2. One today is worth two tomorrows (Benjamin Franklin)
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
Why do I run SETI@home?
Simple, for to try to answer the question DO ALIENS EXIST?

It's a question man has asked for many years now. We've tried every means at our disposal to ascertain whether we are alone in the universe. We've sent messages across the vast expanse of space (our TV and radio transmissions) and searched the many radio waves for anomalies that would indicate advanced peoples.

Frank Drake, in the early 1960s, came up with an equation (called the "Drake Equation") that calculated the possibility of extraterrestrial life.

Astronomer David Darling argues in Life Everywhere (2001) that life is highly likely to be common but also says we lack the knowledge to definitively conclude that it is likely to be uncommon. Keep in mind that our sun is hardly a "typical star" as 95% of stars are less massive.

He determined that there was a possibility of 100,000 to 1,000,000 extraterrestrial civilizations in our galaxy (the Milky Way) alone.

Therefore I WANT TO BELIEVE!

Please visit the website in memory of my father (only italian language):
http://www.mariomeroli.altervista.org/index.html
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