Profile: Barry Ratcliffe

Personal background
Webmaster of http://www.burbs.co.uk (British Music). I work as a computer technician for the police in the day time and have been a seti data cruncher for 6 years on and off. Hope to stay for a while this time round. Nothing been found yet? Im 35 and live in England, (Wellingborough).
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
1. Of course. According to Gene Rodenberry, about 250 years from now. No seriously, life of some form most certainly does exist out there you'd be a fool to doubt it. The level of lifeform and location of course is a mystery right now but only for now. At the current rate of technological development I'd say we'd find it within the next 50 years but maybe proove it sooner.

2. I don't think a beacon would be a good idea. For all we know it could translate into a war cry to other lifeforms? Discrete investigations is whats needed. Music, may be the answer - I've got some shit that needs sending in outer space! ;-) (also got lots of great stuff folks ;-)

3. I want to do my bit to crunch the giga-quads of data. Suggestions - yeah, make it possible to click a link on the program to open the seti site. its only plain text in the about bit. Also, checking for later program versions automatically would be nice. Maybe also a window of user stats, position in top 500 users etc
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