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| I am 29 years old and live in Towcester (pronounced toaster) UK ,which is an old Roman battle ground, with my wife Angela and dog Brindy. I work for Bookham Technology as a process engineer. Where we have a Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) and Indium Phospide (InP) wafer fab producing optical components for backbone telecommunications. We currently produce lasers, receives and modulators which all work with light down an optical fibre. We also produce Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits or MMIC (pronounced mimic) which drive the optical devices at speeds up to 40Gbs, that’s 40 Giga bytes per second! Development has devices that work at 80Gbs but they are not ready for manufacture. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| I first got involved in Seti whilst trying to over clock a Cyrix chip (remember those) and I wanted a program which would push the processor to the limit for long periods. At University (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK) I studied Geophysics and Planetary Physics so I was very pleased to help the Seti team. I am sure that intelligent life does exists outside our planet. As an avid fan of Arthur C. Clarks 2001 series of books (4 in all) which describes life on Jupiter’s’ moon Europa it is only a small step to other solar systems or galaxies. |
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