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| Personal background |
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I am a complete armature on this PC, but I try hard. I like going sailing, skiing and walking up mountains in North Wales when I get time. I enjoy a bit of photography, the one above is from the "London Eye". I like canals as a benign method of transportation and leisure.
I love going to Ireland where I have some connections and enjoy a few pints of Guinness.
I live near London where I work but I am looking forward to living in the countryside a bit more when I pack my job in, which is soon, I hope.
I do not watch a lot of TV but I listen to the wireless, BBC Radio 4, which is better than it seems. Have a listen on the net if you like. A bit of comedy at about 12.30pm on a Saturdays is a good start. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. This is a brilliant way of solving a massive research project. Whoever thought it up and made it possible deserves a medal.
2. It would be very sad not to beam out a message of some sort or another. Obviously the possible recipients will have to be technically advanced enough to pick it up, so we should make it as simple as we can for them to translate and send a reply. I vaguely recall a message being sent out in a series of two tones. The total number of tones was only divisible by two numbers, so they could be arranged into two different rectangles. One of them was nonsense the other made a simple shape of a human. Pump that out all over space for a year then change the picture. Just a good idea somebody had, does anybody know if they did it?
3. I do this "SETI" malarkey just to play a tiny part in a worthwhile project. It shows that some people on this planet can cooperate and have a common goal even though we are probably all very different people. Perhaps we should make planet earth rules and laws like this, then we might have a chance of getting on a bit better with each other.
4. There is bound to be life out there somewhere but it will be too far away for any direct physical contact. If any other life forms had discovered travel faster than the speed of light then maybe they would have paid us a visit. I presume that such speed is therefore not possible unless they took one look and thought "Ooo-err, leave them alone". After all if they were that advanced they would have had to have developed a stable social structure and learnt not blow each other up at the drop of a hat. Maybe just as well they did keep away.
Can I open more versions of SETI on my PC so that when I am not here they can all get going with the bit of spare computing power left.
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