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| Personal background |
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| I have loved space and astronomy since a little kid. Unfortunately, city lights have blanked out most of the night sky nowadays. When at my sisters in Cornwall I was amazed by how much of the night sky is full of stars visible to the human eye - the whole of the Milky Way spread across the sky before my eyes and I could even see three of Jupiters moons with the help of a normal pair of binoculars! I have often stood in the pitch black of the Cornish night sky, and here at home, wondering if, in the direction I am looking, is there some interstellar craft plying its way across the heavens - dreams are made of this. I rate myself a gifted novice when it comes to astronomy and my site pages on this subject reflect this. I am 53 (2003)and I suppose my hobby is now my web site. I spend a lot of time, through my site, helping others with queries, usually on or from my World War 2 research pages. I like football and am a fan of Manchester United, and have been since the late 50s; also reflected in my domain. I also like to research the unusual in history; such as Who was the real Moses?; King Tutankhamun etc. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| SETI at Home is really quite a very important stage in our discovery of Space and our place in the Cosmos. I think that we should be "making ourselves known" for the better or worse of the human race. There is no way that we are the only "civilised" race in the Universe; its virtually impossible. But, where those other worlds are is anyone's guess. The only hope for mankind is to go out and explore and eventually colonise other worlds, but I believe that this must be done with peace in our hearts - otherwise we will tangle with someone bigger than us who will surely destroy us. The space shuttle Columbia tragedy only highlights the dangers of this venture, and until we get it right, SETI offers a safe, ground based means of checking out the neighbourhood. NASA has been too easily able to sit back on its laurels and has not pushed forward the technological advances that we need to explore space. This is partly due to funding but also lack of drive, I believe, in the right places. I run SETI at home, currently on data unit 205, because I want to do even such a tiny microscopic bit to help. Those of us with computers big enough to easily handle this program should download it and use it to do that little bit to help. Maybe one day there will be that little flash of data that signifies "Mike - your name is now in history" as the pc to find the intelligent, artificial, signal we have been searching for! Dreams, again, are made of this and it costs me absolutely nothing! |
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