Profile: jmkemp

Personal background
I'm a 30 year old Scot from Old Kilpatrick, just outside Glasgow. One of my passions is role-playing games, and one of the ones that I have been playing with a group of friends for several years now is set in the future with human colonies in space. See http://www.the-universe.org.uk if you are interested.

Apart from that I have my feet firmly on the ground, or at least I like to think so. My wife, Tracy, would probably tell you different.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I think that there is a good chance that ET life exists, if I didn't I don't think I would be running SETI@Home. Part of the reason that I got involved with SETI@home was because it was such a far-sighted solution to the problem of analysing the data that it inspired me to want to help out. There is a good chance that if we make contact that the SETI project will be responsible, and being part of it in even a small way allows for some pride.

One of the things that we all need to remember is that if there is other life out there it might well be at the same level of development that we are, and it could be a long time before the electromagnetic radiation that they put out gets here for us to detect. If they are using something else for long-range communications then we might never find them. However the lack of evidence is not the same as negative evidence which disproves the theory.

Not finding any extraterrestrial life doesn't mean that it isn't out there.
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