| Personal background |
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Working from home in Sydney, Australia, the jewel of the Pacific I am a consultant to the Chemicals Industry.
Together with Alison, our company specialises in Health and Safety and Regulatory Affairs, especially in rural industries.
We both have a wide rangeing interest in scientific matters and so it is inevitible that we became involved in Seti@home. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Extraterrestrial life probably does exist but I doubt we will find it in my lifetime.
The problem would be recognising it. Say for example it existed on a cold planet. Then it is likely that the life would run very slowly. Evolution would be slow and so would movement - perhaps to the extent that we would not even notice it!
Similarly if evolution was in an environment hostile to us (through heat for chemical reasons) then communication and recognition may be so far beyond our frame of reference that we may never dream of the key to communication. In other words we may be looking using the wrong tools.
I hope that we may find others, although if we found life forms capable of communicating with us, I fear that the reaction would be panic from the military. This may be well founded unless the distances involved were so vast that communiction and not visitation was all that was achieved.
I runs Seti@home from sheer curiosity. |
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