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Hi, I’m Geoff Lamb from Sydney Australia. I was only 8 years old when Sputnik went into orbit and motivated by Arthur C Clarke’s 1949 book ‘Young Traveler In Space’, decided I should study for a job that would get me a job a space program
Regrettably after a lifetime in the computer industry, including 25 years with IBM and earning a PhD for work in e-commerce, the only contribution I can make to boldly going where nobody has been before, is to crunch data for seti@home. But I got close – the IMAX movie ‘Space Station’ in 3D is almost as good as being there!
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Yes of course ET life exists, it’s illogical for it not to. Whether it’s sentient or capable of communication is entirely a different matter. The most successful life form ever to exist on our own planet, the dinosaur, in over 100 million years, never managed (as far as we know) to use the simplest tool. Indeed the arms got shorter and the teeth got bigger – which is NOT a good sign. Dolphins, whales and elephants have comparable brains to humans, but they make lousy conversationalists.
If it’s there we’ll find it and I believe we should try, which is why I’m in the seti@home program. Little chance of danger in making ‘First Contact’, we’ll have adequate time to prepare with a probable double digit response time counted in years. No need to send a beacon signal – as Carl Sagan has already observed, ‘formatted’ EM radiation has been leaking from this planet for about 100 years. However if “I love Lucy†is the fist thing ET gets from planet Earth, it may account from why he’s gone into hiding.
I believe the seti@home program is one of the most brilliant ideas ever conceived for all people to participate in a Universal project. All I’d like extra is more personal feed back. I’d like to see my own ‘best data’, and ‘Where we’re at’ as Dot points on my screen saver – positive feed back is a great motivator to do better.
I’ve inserted a picture of myself which is accurate if viewed from 30 light years out – it’s the way I’d like ET to see me!
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