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Being mad about all things science, SETI was the perfect thing to be involved with. My hobbies include anything to do with cookery and photography and music and hi-fi. I am an outdoor person, and love walking.
I can be described as a low-tech, hi-tech person. I can’t stand silly ring tones; I just want my phone to be a phone!! I still think wind up gramophones are cool. I prefer a fountain pen to a biro, and think there is still a place for thermonic valves in the world. On the other hand I program PC’s and embrace technology at all levels
For work, I am employed in the Optical Industry, and am a Qualified Dispensing Optician and Spectacle Maker. I am happiest when my hands are dirty doing something
In music I love singing - tenor. For listening I’m quite eclectic anything from jazz to world to classical and some modern rock etc. I enjoy the music more than the words. Jazz is my first love, and I drive everyone crazy with it. This passion follows through to art where I am definitely a modernist – preferring Kandinski to the old masters, and quite a lover of the ideas of Cesar Manrique
I am not a religious person, an Atheist through and through. There must be intelligent life out there. I wonder if we will ever “make contactâ€Â, the maths of the probability is going against us
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SETI is a fantastic distributed computing model, which was the springboard for many other projects. It is pure science, run by people with pure nerve, and that’s why I support SETI. In terms of the project aim - it is a good one, but I`m not sure we as a society could deal with proof of extra-terrestrial life
I started the Opticians Worldwide team to involve, and bring on board my many colleagues who were also science people at heart
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