Profile: Robert Brand

Personal background
I'm a Telecommunications Specialist from Sydney Australa. I have worked on many close and deep space projects starting with Apollo 11 comms through to about STS 50. Involved with many deep space projects of the time based at the Parkes radio telescope - many Voyager encounters and ESA's Giotto (Halley's comet interceptor). I'm a dedicated SETI fan who has used the classic seti and Boinc version on every PC that the family has running
Age: 54
Hobbies: Caving, Canyoning, stereo photography, programming
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
Will we find anything? Well I believe in good old fashioned science - if you don't do the experiment you will never know the results and a negative result is still a good result - it lets you plan the next experiment.

I expect that life exists. How will we discover it? I was once asked when I was leading a caving trip "How many undiscovered caves in this area are there?" The question "How long is a bit of string?" keeps popping into my mind. Benefits: wow! Dangers? Hell. A beacon? Even a large needle in a haystack is hard to find especially if no-one is looking - another unknown.

Suggestions? Keep up the data and the connectivity and try and make the client software even smarter, but you guys are doing all of that. Look more at parts of the sky not yet surveyed.
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