| Personal background |
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| At home I am a husband and father to two litlle girls. I love food, film, music and science fiction. I have been a space exploration enthusiast since I was about 5 years old and am excited about the advances humankind has made over the last 50 years in exploring our universe. At work I am a molecular biologist with an interest in computers. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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What I love most about SETI@home is the size of the project. Eventually, SETI won't be able to generate enough data to feed the hungry SETI@home clients all over our planet.
Wouldn't it be fitting to discover evidence of extraterrestrial technology before the 50th anniversary of the space age in Oct 2007?
I do think that it is highly probable that technological civilizations exist within our stellar neighbourhood. What we may detect may not be an intentional message. An unintentional communication may be encrypted beyond our ability to decipher it. Similarly an intentional message may be undecipherable simply because we may not share any common experiences or senses with the organisms that created them.
What should we transmit? First, a mathematical description our biochemical building blocks: nucleotides, DNA, RNA, amino acids, lipids, etc.
Then the genome sequence of the simplest bacterial organism known to us along with all the proteins it encodes. Then the known biochemical pathways of the organism.
Then the genome sequences of more complex bacteria, then yeast, plants, slime moulds, thread worms, mosquito, fruit fly, etc. and eventually our own genome sequence and all its variety.
This may be the only way mankind will survive in the universe. |
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