Born in New Zealand, I have spent most of the last 3-4 years working abroad as a telecommunications and IT lawyer. The law is really boring (no surprises there eh?) but the telecommunications and IT areas are really dynamic and exciting to work in. I've returned home now and set up my own consultancy and have found that being overeducated and underemployed is really satisfying. I've always been enamoured with the question of whether or not there was life beyond earth. Its going to be pretty boring if humanity doesn't have company. Good luck!
Kind regards to the world at large,
Aaron Davidson.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
Does extraterrestrial life exist - I would like to think so. Odds-wise is seems pretty likely but it must just be a matter of probability - which has to mean that there is a (really small?) probability that we are all alone.
Should we transmit a beacon for others to find? - We are doing plenty enough transmitting as it is. Call me paranoid but I don't like the idea of transmitting a beacon at the most findable frequency in the most findable direction (along the spiral arm towards the centre of the Milky Way?). Lets listen in on what others might have to say before we advertise our presence to all and sundry. I subscribe to the theory that given we have only just got the ability to listen then we must be the weediest kids on the block - lets not invite the bullies in shall we.
Why do I run seti@home - because my computer has far more power than I need, espcially when I'm sleeping so it may as well be used for something that I'm interested in.
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.
