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| Personal background |
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Coffee Films are an independent film production company working in South East England.
We have produced 17 short films and documentaries and are currently shooting two new films we hope to be showing at film festivals worldwide in 2003; Dealer, a 40 minute Hi-8 short about illicit drug culture in the UK, and How To Disappear Completely, a 10 minute DV short about human society as seen through a young photographers eyes.
We are wholly independent and unbudgeted, and currently working on numerous feature film, short film, and music video projects with artists in Germany, Northern Ireland, and India.
Full details of the company, our history, and projects can be found on our website; www.coffeefilms.com
Steve Piper
Artistic Director |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Do you think extraterrestrial life exists?
ET has to exist, logic demands that in an infinite universe there are an infinite number of possibilities, so it's not so much a question of if as when, though I suppose that logic doesn't have to demand that he lives anywhere in our vicinity, so it may take some time to find him.
If so, when and how will humans discover it?
I'd like to think human ingenuity would find ET before he found us, and I expect something like SETI to be a very positive step forward, even though the search is, relatively, local to Earth. I'd like to see more ambitious space projects; a giant telescope on the dark side of the moon, gazing out into the depths of space, and more Voyager style satellites just sent off to gather data.
What are the possible benefits and dangers of such a discovery?
Obviously we could benefit tremendously from ET's more advanced than ourselves, or they could benefit from us if vice-versa, the fear would have to be that of many sci-fi films; that ET is both more advanced and more agressive than us, and proceeds to blow everything up, unfortunately they'll almost certainly know about us before we do them so there is probably little risk in us searching.
Should humans transmit a beacon for others to find?
I don't see why not, again, anyone who represents a genuine danger to us will have to have more advanced technology than us to travel here; so they'll probably know about us whether we send out a beacon or not, effectively our radio waves do a basic job of letting people know where we are anyway.
If so, what information should we send?
"Last services for 200 light years"
Why do you run SETI@home? What are your views about the project? Any suggestions?
I like the idea that even when sitting idle my PC is doing something, the next stage for man to explore is space and it's great to play a small part in that. |
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