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| Personal background |
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I am an academic born in Sydney, Australia but living and working in Adelaide, Australia.
I work in the field of Experimental Combustion Research, which means I play with lasers and burn things for a living.
I have never seriously burnt myself, although I did once set my arm on fire making a flame-thrower as a teenager. Subsequent degrees in Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Ancient History and Combustion Laser Diagnostics have helped curb my youthful enthusiasm, but (magically) have not stamped out any innocent wonder when I gaze up at the night sky.... |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I am involved in the SETI project because I respect the notion of many people collaborating towards a common research goal. Using the internet for distributed computing is a FANTASTIC idea. I hope that by supporting the success of SETI, more projects like this are set up in other fields.
Is there life on other planets?
In my opinion, Yes.
The assertion that there is NO life on other planets because we haven't found it yet is laughable. Especially, when there is little serious interest in looking and our impressions of ourselves is so firmly rooted in a belief system where finding other life would seriously shake our own ideas of ourselves.
The large problem in society seems to stem from a conviction that MY point of view and MY culture and MY way of life are absolutes beyond any critical testing. Perhaps, contemplation of the vast sky can put a new perspective into place where the differences between points of view, culture and way of life are seen for what they truly are:- smaller than we pretend.
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars' - Oscar Wilde |
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