| Personal background |
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| I live in Tamwoth England a small country market town. I am married with three adult sons (well I think they are adult, sometimes I wonder). I am a service engineer on photocopiers primarily, but also networks and print servers. My hobbies are Amateur Radio, Computers and Photography. I am also taking an Open University Degree course in Natural Sciences, which includes Astronomy. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I do not believe that our sun, among all the millions of suns in our galaxy is the only one to have a planet suitable for life, and that our planet is the only suitable planet on which life has evolved. As to whether ETs have developed technology more advanced than us, I would not like to speculate on.
But it could be a real downer for humans if we did make contact with a much more advanced race, think of the effect advanced Europeans had on primitive peoples in the past. That is the only danger I can think of. War and invasion, I think would be logisticaly impossible.
As to transmitting a beacon, As a radio amateur I am very familiar with the sit and listen syndrome, where the frequency you are listening to is silent with not a signal heard, then someone takes the initiative and transmits a request for contact and suddenly everyone out there is calling. So yes I believe someone should take the initiative, and it might as well be us! Otherwise every sentient race in the universe will sit and listen and never make contact.
I do not think Seti is big enough and is not financed sufficiently. Every government in the world should contribute or certainly every first world (I hate that teminology) government. Also more resourse should be made available, one radio telescope looking at one 360 deg band of the sky. Using the radio amateur analogy again. If you leave your aerial pointing in just one direction there may be dozens of stations you can not hear in another direction. So lets have more radio telescopes covering the whole of the sky, or at least a stearable one that can cover a larger proportion of the sky.
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