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| Personal background |
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| I've always thought that age is one of those facts of life that should be ignored until you are too worn out to climb the stairs to bed. Not that I am that old - 45 at the last count. I've been in the IT industry one way or another since I finished college back in the early seventies and I'm still going strong despite my current view that there is almost nothing new in this business. I love astronomy although living in the south of England limits my options due to light pollution and reading sci-fi. I'm also a moderate Star-Trek freak, but I don't speak Klingon or have any desire to...If I ever have the desire to speak an alien language I hope its for real! I have a wife and two kids now in their final year at school before going off to University. I hope to have some more personal time to spend on me once they have flown the nest rather than being Mr familiy taxi man as I'm sure most parents of kids of any sociable age will testify can be somewhat limiting of ones personal time! |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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The first time I ever gazed down a telescope the first thing that sprang to mind was that of being an ant stranded in the Sahara desert of North Africa, looking out over billions of grains of sand wondering which direction I should head off in looking for my home nest. That was a long time ago but not that long after Neil Armstrong did that "one small step for man" thing on the moon. Since then our knowledge of the universe has expanded way beyond any of my expectations of the time (Mars I have to say seems a lot further away now than the impression we had at the time of the moon landings!) The boundaries of space that we have explored since are vast in comparison to the boundaries of our earth's surface, but in comparison to the ant lost in the Sahara desert we have merely crawled over the first grains of sand in our quest for our destiny.
Very recent events in world history have led me to the view that mankind is riddled with religious dogma and homocentric beliefs that are the root cause of many destructive forces within our human cultures. Many of those beliefs are distilled from centuries of folklore and introspective analysis of all things from a homocentric viewpoint, culminating in the long held belief by many that we are the centre of the universe – something that our recently acquired knowledge of the universe shows us that the reality is vastly different and that we are a mere spec in the back yard of a galaxy surrounded by billions of other galaxy’s.
My hope is that one day we will be able to find amongst the billons of grains of sand irrefutable evidence of an alien civilisation; one large enough to cause the cultures of our world to re-evaluate their long held homocentric viewpoints, begin to understand that there is an unimaginable gain to be had by all to look skywards and realise that we are not alone and stop the senseless bickering and fighting over ancient homocentric dogma.
My computers tiny contribution to the SETI@home project is one way of working towards that road map. |
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