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I'm a 30 yr old guy from Nottingham, U.K. I work as a marketing analyst for an international retailer (so I understand what a nightmare getting large amounts of data analysed!) It probably sounds a bit boring but I really do love my work and I think not many people can say that.
I'm very interested in all aspects of space and the possibilties out there. I'm always surfing about at CERN, catching up with latest developments in physics and their work there. I'm also very interested in future technological developments and surf about looking for whats around the corner.
My hobbies include yoga, gym, walking, hiking, camping, swimming, football, tennis, piano, dinner parties (cooking), a good beer, lounging about, reading and somehow I fit in studying an msc in marketing! |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I find it totally impossible that we are the only life form. Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, houses billions of other planets and there are billions of other galaxies out there also!
Star Trek aside (where other species conveniently speak English in an American accent and cultures and belief systems are based on Western systems), I think it is going to be very difficult to communicate with other species from other planets or even galaxies. To put this into perspective, we have many species on Earth that we cannot communicate effectively with, so how do we assume we are going to be able to communicate with them? Moreover, we can hardly communicate with each other! How many of you can speak say, Russian?
If we transmit a beacon out to space, my personal opinion is that we should set aside culture and belief systems and concentrate on other areas. For example, as it is the human species sending out the beacon, we must send information on the human sciences and our molecular structure and what kind of atmosphere would need to survive on other planets.
I'm running SETI@home as I want to help out. I have quite a powerful pc and I'm only using a small amount of it at any one time. Also, being so interested in this area, I feel I'm part of something that could become reality one day. I hope. |
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