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| Personal background |
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I am a Machinist , now working as a maintainance engineer.
I left school at the age of fifteen with no qualifications of any sort but got interested in Education at the age of forty . I studied Mathematics with the Open University and was awarded the degree of BA in 1989.
I built my own computer in 1980 using a 6502 ( 8bit ) chip. It had 4k of memory later expanded to a huge 8 k! I learnt how to program in BASIC and Machine code mainly because software to purchase was unavailable.These days I use a PC .
I am a great fan of the music of J S Bach and have a large collection of cd's of mainly early music and Organ music.
I've always been enthusiastic about space even before anything was launched . I am I Science Fiction fan , for 40 years now.
My hero(s) :-
Carl Sagan , Richard Feynman and several dozen more.
I'm a Grandfather now and enjoy the refreshing new view that a child has of our world.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I think that extraterrestrial life exists . It seems vanishingly unlikely that our rather large universe does not contain much more life. After all if it can happen here then why not somewhere else.
As to when and how , I think that something like SETI will find something if something exists to be found in our neighbourhood. When is very difficult since we have no way of guessing how near the nearest transmitting ET's are. We are not transmitting and we are the only civilisation capable of this that we know of.
I don't see much in the way of dangers since my view is that extrasolar travel will be either impossible or very expensive .It would be nice to know that technical societies survive hundreds or thousands of years . If such exist then maybe we could learn much from them. We should need to think carefully about what to send , in light of whatever we learn about the ET's . Sending Bach's music to Aliens that don't have any sense of pitch would be silly.
I run SETI@home to be a part of what I consider one of the most important questions of all time.
SETI@home is a first rate effort , given the lack of government interest.
It would be useful to be able to listen in to ET's Television broadcasts , Is this possible with the current project? |
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