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I am a Baby Boomer, child of the Sixties and all that. I grew up during the big flying saucer craze and read all the books by George Adamski and co. As a child, I saw more flying saucers than you could shake a stick at.
When I left school I became a professional photographer because that was what you did then if you wanted to be really cool and impress the girls without having to join a pop group. You can see I still haven't lost my touch.
That picture of me has not been re-touched in Photoshop, I really do look that good. Seriously, I thought I would give you guys a chance to know what it would feel like to come face to face with a real alien.
I live in South East London on the banks of the River Thames although I was born in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. It doesn't show though except after a few pints of John Smith's when I get an overpowering urge to rush out and buy a ferret. (If you are an American, don't even try to understand what that last sentence means).
I still like to use my camera a lot and like to photograph the birds feeding on the mud flats by the river as they migrate through. Doting on my Granddaughter takes up a lot of my time as well.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Does extraterrestrial life exist?
Yes, and it's probably quite common. In the last few years we have discovered that life can exist in extraordinary conditions even here on Earth. The big question is - can there be intelligent life? To that, I'm not so sure. I would hope so but the odds are so enormous.
I think it was Professor Fred Hoyle who described it thus:
"Imagine a tornado crashing through a warehouse full of aircraft parts and leaving behind a fully formed and functional jumbo jet."
Not impossible, just very unlikely. But that isn't the end of the story.
We always talk about what the impact on us would be if we discovered we were not the only the intelligent species in the universe, but consider this. What if we discovered that we were?
Finding out that we were not alone would be exiting, but knowing that we were would be terrifying. I wonder if we could cope with that responsibility.
Suppose that in the entire lifetime of the Universe it gets just one chance and we are it. Would we have such a cavalier attitude to the survival of our species and our planet knowing that, with our extinction, we would leave behind a dead universe for the rest of time?
Keep searching and sleep well. |
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