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| I am a 44 year old American ex-pat living in England. After retiring from a 15 year career as a Security Policeman in the USAF I have settled in the UK with my British wife. Holly is our nine year old daughter. My wife also has three girls from a previous marraige, one of which has just given birth to our first grandchild. I work as a Communications Operator with the local police authority and Carol is a Maternity Care Assistant with the local health authority. Orlando, Florida was home before I moved away. (We try to get back there is often as we can afford.) I like reading, music and films, and spending as much time with my daughter as I can. I never miss an issue of National Geographic or Readers Digest or an on-line issue of Spacenews.com. You can never be too informed! |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I am a fair-weather back-yard astronomer. Ever since I can remember I've had a great interest in astronomy and space travel. Growing up in the "space race" era and living so close to the Kennedy Space Center fueled my interest fiercely and gave me frequent opportunities to experience the awe and fascination up close. As far as other intelligent life outside our own solar system goes, I'm certain it does exist. Other, rudimentary life probably exists right here in our own solar system. I think it will be quite some time before humans make contact with "E.T." however. The cosmos is just so vast. I can't imagine "rare Earth" being really that rare, but I think that within our lifetime, the chances of contact with any sort of intellectual life form is exceptionally unlikely. I mean, we have seen almost to the dawn of time with the Hubble Space Telescope and scoured the heavens with the Aricebo Radio Telescope. Although there is some circumstancial evidence leading to the prospect of life, no solid evidence has been discovered. Maybe the James Webb Space Telescope (no relation!) will reveal more when it's launched in 2010. And the A.R.O. improvements may also help in the search. Is infinity a reality? I think it has to be. And if the universe goes on infinitly, then surely there must be other life out there. We just can't be the only intellectual life form in existence. Paraphrasing a line from Robert Zemeckis' outstanding film, "Contact" (not-so-coincidentally written by the late, great astronomer Carl Sagan): if there is no-one else out there, "what a waste of space it would be".
I've been running Seti@home for over four and a half years now on my p.c. Nothing special - just a 366Mhz home computer. It's running whenever the machine is on. I like to think it gives me the chance to make a little part of history. And maybe Andy Warhols' prediction for fifteen minutes of fame might just come true! |
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