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Ok here goes: Hi, I'm Ian and have ALWAYS been interested in Science-Fiction and what is "out there". Favourite films would be (in no particular order): 2001, Alien, Aliens2, Hitchcock (esp. Rear Window, Vertigo, North by NorthWest), Shawshank, Deer Hunter, Midnight Express, Laurel & Hardy.
TV shows: West Wing, X-Files, Star Trek, Red Dwarf and the many great BBC comedy shows.
I also like my holidays (esp. to America), photography, old cinemas, trying new cocktails with my collection of 47 spirits, Apple computers, DIY, countryside.
About my job, erm......ok, I'm the Editor of the oldest published rail timetable possibly on this planet (maybe the Universe!); now called the OAG Rail Guide but Agatha Christie fans would know its former title of ABC Railway Guide used in "The ABC Murders" (in America "The Alphabet Murders") and published continuously since 1853. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I'd heard about this project years ago but as I've now joined the 21st century and become a Broadband user, I thought I'd do my bit.
Surely by now there can be no question that something is out there even if it's just the simplest form of life; it would be an incredible piece of luck that we are the only planet to have the right conditions to have conceived life (out of billions of galaxies with their billions of stars and goodness knows how many planets).
Whether we will ever be privileged to find (or be found by) something, I have my doubts but if we don't try we will never know.
Would it be fantastic if we did find advanced civilisations? It's probably too late to worry about the dangers as our TV and Radio shows are on the way as we speak ('though what they would make of us from these IS probably a big worry!) |
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