Profile: Tony Williams

Personal background
I am a 43 y.o. electrician, working for Jaguar Cars at Halewood.

I have been an active amateur astronomer since about 1977 but have been keen on the subject since my Dad got me up in the early hours of the morning to watch the first Moon landing.

I also enjoy walking, pubs (or even walking TO pubs!), classical music, rock music and of course Astronomy and spaceflight.

I am a member of Liverpool's Astronomical Society and I own a 10" reflector and a 4" Vixen refractor.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
The concept of Seti@home is brilliant - it's about time personal computers were put to real use!

Looking back on it, my thoughts about life in the Universe were stimulated by watching Star Trek - I was only in my early teens when I first saw it in the UK - sure enough it was only fiction but what if other beings DID exist? How could we say a simple 'hello' without knowing if we were actually saying 'we would like to go to war with you'?

Contacting an alien race is a two-edged sword however. The idea of interstellar exchange of information appeals to me but in the back of my mind even conquerors and enslavers throughout the ages on Earth started by saying "We come in peace".

Maybe I'm an ideallist but I like to think that we could peacefully co-exist with alien races but I fear that our current inability to peacefully co-exist both with our fellow humans on this planet and with other creatures which inhabit the Earth means that we would consider exploitation over cooperation.

It is also interesting to ponder how more religious and superstitious groups on Earth would react to news of intelligent life elsewhere in the galaxy (was God an astronaut?!).
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