Profile: Neil Canavan


Personal background
I am from Canberra Australia, 54 years old going on 14, and work as a service delivery manager for IBM.
ET is out there, all we have to do is find the chap. So keep looking.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home

    <li>Life exists in many forms, if we expect to find life as we know it, then the odds are that there are planets of temperate climate with a similar ratio of gases in their atmosphere, to dear old earth. I expect we will one day understand that planets at a particular distance from their sun ( in a ratio relating sun diameter, age, heat/radiation output to orbit diameter of the panet ) will support life similar to ours.... In terms of danger... danger exists everywhere, so some practical danger is worth the risk. I can think of human issues of religious consequence through ET being something like the Star Trek Cardassians - lets hope we find the Vulcans first, to use a metaphor... either spectral end can be delt with at the time... we cannot let the fear of the unknown stop the search.</li>

    <li>I expect that we already transmit enough spectral noise to be picked out of the background by ETs seti program. However, a single frequency carrier with a modulated message would be easier to pick out... transmitting primes in a repeating sequence would be an interesting way to start. Oh... I think I saw that in a movie once.</li>

    <li>The whole concept of ET has fasinated me for ages... Any practical thing I can do to help find ET, is high on my list of projects. Your distributed processing structure is the best use of idle cycles I have yet seen.</li>

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