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| Personal background |
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Hello,
Yep that's me on the image. This was a completely accidental shot of my chin
(in need of a shave!) acquired during my MSc dissertation at Durham University
into alluvial fan development. I guess its obvious that I'm a student, and hopefully
will be for another three years as I'm doing my PhD in Geomorphology at Bristol
University.
Enough of that. I come from the Easington, in the North East of England (where
Billy Elliot was filmed so you film buffs know where I mean). I was born in 1979
and spent the majority of my life growing very tall (6' 6"), eating, reading
science books, getting dirty and eating rocks and, most of all, with my head in
the stars. I've always loved astronomy and have been a serious amateur astronomer
for nine years now. I have only just acquired my first PC as I used (and still
use) an Acorn A4000. My PCs a nice 1GHz job with a big hard disk and a nice big
monitor, perfect for playing games and running astronomy programs, and with so
much free resources then why not run SETI@home as well! At least it does
something useful.
Keep well all.
Best wishes,
Gareth.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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SETI@Home. An extremely brave and interesting concept which has probably been
one of the single greatest factors in moulding the way in which the human
race percives the existance of extraterrestrial life. When I go out on a clear
night and look up I can see stars (albiet not that many due to light pollution).
But I would estimate that more than 90% have planets around them. Out of all of
those planets only a few may provide conditions for life as we know it to form.
I think that is breathtaking.
The human race seems a very narrow minded species if it believes
that we are alone in this Universe of a near incomprehensible size and that
life forming elsewhere is impossible. After all who would have thought 100 years
ago that humans could send messages around the world in seconds and recreate worlds
on their desktops by using a keyboard and mouse? 100 years ago this would have
been deemed impossible. Who knows where we will be in 100 years. I'm not sure
we'll be any closer to discovering intelligent life but I would say that we
will have found microbes on Mars and larger marine animals on Europa. One thing
is certain though, with dreams and ideas like SETI@home, and the people who
can make it happen, contact with ET is metamorphosing from science fiction to
science fact. We have already started to build the road to the stars.
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