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| Personal background |
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I work for Reuters in the UK, as an IT Development Manager helping Reuters to develop and deploy the systems it needs to run it's business.
I live in Bishops Stortford in the UK, a small market town that is just 20 minutes from Stansted Airport (fortunately the planes don't go over us!)
I'm married to Wendy with 3 children Michael, James and Sophie (currently 6,4 and 2 as of the end of 2001).
We attend St James's Church which is our local parish Chruch.
We've spent 2 years in Japan as well as various places around the UK. We're fairly settled at the moment having been in Bishops Stortford for nearly 4 years.
I love reading, and I'm currently writing a book (a bit Terry Pratchett/Robert Rankin if you can imagine that). |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I'm sure that life in some form exists. Whether it can in any way communicate with us, I don't know.
It seems that even with the vast effort put into SETI we may be looking in the wrong place or for the wrong thing.
From the many sci-fi books I've read the ones by Robert L Forward have been interesting in the way extraterrestrial life has been portrayed.
If we did find life as we know it I suspect that the whole world will go into mourning, as our expectation as 'special' will dissapear. I don't know what will happen to the large population of our planet that need that feeling of being special in the Universe, but I hope the world won't just 'stop'.
If there are extraterrestrials, and they are benign, then they may be waiting to see if we are mature enough as a species (the answer has to be no right now).
If there are extraterrestrials, and they are not benign, then we'd have known about it.
Given that I'm sure global peace, understanding and tolerance is a good place to start! |
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