Based in the South West of the UK - age (well I left University in 1971 so not a kid). Project Manager and Business Improvement Analyst with a Pharmaceutical Wholesaler. Fly Piper PA28-140 as a hobby.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
SETI - hmm always been interested in Cosmolgy - Carl Sagan's "Intelligent Life in the Universe" was a good start.
It would be a massive statistical improbability if life was restricted to Earth, if you start from this hypothesis then it is only a very small step to accept that there is intelligent life "out there". Defining "intelligent" and "life" is a bit of a hard one though. Fred Hoyle's "Black Cloud" is an interesting twist on our terra-centric view.
It will be fascinating to see the change in our perception of ourselves when the first contact is made - unlikely in our lifetimes tho' but it WILL happen (if we don't fry, bomb or infect ourselves into oblivion first).
Keep listening but don't bother transmitting - we are already doing that - we must be one of the brightest radio sources in this little corner of the galaxy.
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.
