Male dob 08/30/41
ex UK Military Radar Engineer, retired after 37 years service in rank of Squadron Leader. Now working in same field as Business Resource Manager for UK Military Air Traffic Control Integrated Projec Team
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
1. It would be arrogant to consider that we are alone in the Galaxy.
2. Do not believe that we should set up beacon. Other worlds may not be entirely altruistic, after all, look at the present state of our world with terrorism and possibility of war in middle east.
3. Run SETI to help locate ETI. Believe that more publicity is needed to encourage others to help process information. I think that the idea to use thousands of home computers to process data in brilliant
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.