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| Personal background |
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I'm a young-at-heart grandma from England and taking part in seti@home is a dream come true! I work as a carer, and have been an amateur astronomer since I was knee-high. I remember the moon landing!
I bought this pc in 1999 just to crunch seti units, I had no idea I'd make so many friends through the website I joined which is now part of the BBC. h2g2 was started by the late Douglas Adams who wrote the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy books.
My homepage is: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/U128652 - I am Galaxy Babe.
I just had a major computer upgrade and was delighted to find my units are completed in approx. 2 hours now, as opposed to over 12 hours beforehand, and 60 hours prior to that.
I belong to the group h2g2 Researchers.
I like most sci-fi especially Men in Black ;-) Farscape and Star Trek.
I love the film "Contact" - (that's me in another life!) and the film "Galaxy Quest" because it made me laugh out loud and someone very special bought me the video. :-)
What else?
Oh yes, I breed tropical fish, fascinating! |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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If I didn't think extraterrestrial life exists, I wouldn't be crunching seti units!
I don't really care how long it takes, so long as the Human race does eventually discover that we are not alone in the vastness of space.
I hope it's one of us seti crunchers who finds the first signal! :-)
The only danger I can forsee is non-enlightened people panicking if E.T. is discovered...
The benefits...pick a number! Imagine sending and receiving messages, even if they take years - exchanging information and knowledge and pictures!
A beacon yes! Information to send? How about "Hello!" 8-)
Why do I run seti@home? I feel priviledged and honoured to be part of the first global project by man/womankind. This search for E.T. binds us as a race, with no barriers of colour, creed, religion; we're just ordinary people who inhabit a little blue planet orbiting an insignificant yellow star, and we want to know we're not the only life in the Universe.
My views on the project are that I hope it never ends until we find E.T. but why should we stop then? It's a big sky... "If there is no-one else up there, it would be an awful waste of space" - Carl Sagan - 'Contact' |
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