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| Personal background |
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I am an Australian living in inner suburban Adelaide with my dog Amber and cat Violet. I completed an Honours degree in Computing from the University of South Australia, and now I work as the CIO of a national Funds Management Company.
I was born in Broken Hill Australia, most notable for being the birth place of the mining company BHP, and for being the in the movie Priscilla (The scene - "The Main Drag in Drag"). My parents and I moved away when I was 3, and though I have spent most of my life in Adelaide, I have also lived in Sydney during my time as a Management Consultant for a well known international Management Consulting firm.
My interests include gay rights movements, good red wine, spirituality, reading, fitness and bodybuilding, and driving fast cars.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I am a participant in SETI@home firstly because it is a successful experiment in distributed computing (one of my research areas from my uni days), and secondly because I believe in the existence of extraterrestrial life. Mainly because I think the billions of stars and other worlds out there make it a probability, and also because I believe that humans shouldn’t be so arrogant as to assume that we are the only creations of the universe.
I think that the discovery of extraterrestrial life will be a great challenge to the human race, primarily because we will need to overcome our fear as a species of other races and beings. Whether we embrace or shoot them will be the acid test for development of the human race.
Having indicated a belief in life out there, I don’t think that it will be easy to find. My hope is that this project will bear fruit, however we must consider the possibility that any other races out there may not have developed either the desire or the technology to reach out into space for others.
As Carl Sagan said in his series Cosmos – “Maybe we are the firstâ€.
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