| Personal background |
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| I am 42 years young, married, and have two beautiful daughters (my pride and joy), Naomi aged 12 and Bethany aged 10. We live in an old cottage in a small village in rural England. I am a freelance journalist and winewriter. I currently write for several magazines about wine and also have a regular sports column in a group of local newspapers. I am a published author with two books about wine on the market at the moment. My only hobby is also my passion and my profession, tasting and collecting wine. But I also have a great love of football (or soccer as my American friends call it) and am interested in all things sport. I am useless with computers and anything to do with figures. Science as a subject fascinates me but I am bewildered by it's mechanics. My ambition in life is to see my family happy and secure in their future, then myself. Anything that comes along in the meantime is a bonus. I would like to be remembered as a kind and gentle person, nothing more or less. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| I believe very much that extraterrestrial life exists. I cannot beleive that a universe filled with as many stars as there are grains of sand on every beach on Earth only supports one planet with life. I have no idea when or how we will make first contact but feel sure that it will happen one day (I hope in my lifetime) - we can only keep searching for clues with the technology that we possess. My hope is that, as a species, we will greatly benefit and our lives will be substantially enriched by our first meeting with another race of beings, and that we can absorb what is good about their society and pass on what is good about ours. I think we should try and make contact with our own signal. This would be a way forward for our species; we have always been a pioneering race who are prepared to explore and gamble. This I believe is partly why we are now the dominant species on our planet, and that it is in our nature to attempt to cross the only frontier that is left to us. As well as information about our physical make-up, we should send in this signal information about the best things that Earth's various cultures have to offer, for instance our music (well some of it at least), art, literature, architecture and a little of our history. I run SETI@home because I want to contribute to the greater good, and this is a project I fervently believe in. If I am lessening the workload one iota for such a worthwhile project, and can contribute in any way to what would be the significant discovery in the history of mankind, then I feel that I am achieving something for us all. |
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