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| Personal background |
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I got interested in astronomy and the SETI project many years ago, but only recently managed to get a consistent PC configuration to be able to continually process the work-units. This time around, I have processed over 450 units, and I'll keep on going until... well, I'll just keep on going.
I'm originally from England, but I emigrated to Sydney, Australia, back in 1991. I've spent the last 9 years in Berlin and Freiburg in Germany and in Bern in Switzerland. My German has improved, and now I can understand a large amount of Swiss-German dialect!
Now I'm back in Australia, studying at Canberra University to become a teacher of computing. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I am certain that life exists elsewhere in the universe. But I doubt that mankind will be able to reach it physically. There are just too many stupid war-mongers in the world, and the technical obstacles and human physiology mean that, even if an earthly rocket could reach another world, the people on board would be dead before it arrived - their progeny would gradually forget their mission and have no desire to communicate back with the Earth.
And if ETs came down to Earth, I'm sure that they'd think that we're not worthy of joining a galactical federation - after all, we're always at war with each other and can't even organise our earthly commercial trade. Maybe ET could help!
As opitimised in the film "Contact", starring lovely Jodie Foster, politicians are too corrupt, greedy and self-centred to "do the right thing" for the rest of humanity.
I run the SETI program to help research. My PC is running anyway, so it might as well do something useful with its spare duty-cycle. It would be nice to have a log of each of the work-units I've processed: where in the sky? at what time? was a candidate signal detected? |
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