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| Personal background |
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| Born in Swindon, Wiltshire, England - brought up in Plymouth, Devon and now living back just outside Swindon again, when I'm home. I served 23 years in the RAF, then joined British Aerospace. I'm now on my 2nd spell with them working to support the Royal Saudi Air Force. I used to be at Dhahran, where the night skies were lousy, followed by a spell at Tabuk, where the sky is lovely and clear, but the winter nights are cold! I then went to Khamis Mushayt, similar to Tabuk but nearly 7000 feet up in the mountains. Now I'm back at Dhahran again! I've been interested in astronomy since schooldays, which were way too long ago. I'm currently studying a series of astronomy based university courses by distance learning, and I'm an intermittant member of an astronomy society in Wiltshire. I'm divorced, with 2 grown-up(?) kids. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Do I think extraterrestrial life exists? - yes. Will we discover it? - very possibly not, and anyway it's probably more likely that "it" will discover us first. How will we discover it? - SETI, or somsthing similar in the future. Benefits? - technology, a more peaceful existence, possibly a new religious awakening. Danger? - we could be wiped out, either by design or accidentally. "It" could be so far advanced that the shock of dropping from no.1 in the universe causes the human race to lose its spirit and die out.
It would be nice to transmit a beacon, but we would have to give serious international thought to the possible consequences. We should only send the minimum of information necessary to describe us and how to reply.
I run SETI@home because I think I'm helping in a great project, the results of which may be of immense benefit to mankind, and also, I like the patterns on the screensaver!
I would like to see it eventually extended to cover the whole sky. I would also like to get my workunit average time down from its current 34 hour average, so that I can process more workunits.
If I process the workunit that discovers ET, the beers are on me! |
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