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| Personal background |
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I'm 32, live in London, England and I'm a government employee in the field of ICT.
My interests include space science and travel in general especially the US Space Program.
I first logged onto SETI@HOME when it first came into existence during its beta stage. I found out about the project during a switching channels moment on TV, the project was shown on a UK childrens program called Blue Peter, I logged onto the website and pre-registered as it had not started at that time.
I was running a very slow Pentium 300 then, this was too slow to run the program along with all my other applications so unfortunately I eventually gave up and erased the program.
I now have a 1.7GHz Pentium 4 running XP Professional with an ADSL connection. I thought of rejoining and this time had no problems at all. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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There are obviously billions of galaxies in the known universe, these galaxies contain thousands of billions of stars, is there life on planets in orbit around these stars? Who knows, if you think there might be it makes you wonder what form could it take, is it like us as human beings, are they not?
Does it bring into doubt our origins according to recognised religion, is the life intelligent? if so is it peaceful? How long has it been in existence? There are so many questions that come to mind.
If SETI does eventually locate signals in whatever form from intelligent life then we are as another life form that one little step closer to answering the biggest questions in our short history once and for all, where do we come from?
If this were to occur could they help in answering our questions in this regard? There will always be dissenters who say that we should not dabble in matters that we may regret. Where would we be now if the first primates at the dawn of man thought in this way?
We humans are, as a species, explorers. It is in our nature. It is a natural process that we continually evolve as a species. One way to do that is to look further than our limited boundaries and out into the known universe. I am proud that I can help in a very small way in the search for possible extraterrestrial life by sampling data from the project.
The SETI project is one of the most far reaching experiments by concept, who would have thought the idea of using millions of home computers around the globe to analyse data from radio telescopes would be so intriguing.
I wouldn’t have, but here I am nonetheless. If you read this short message and are contemplating joining this project please do. What have you got to lose otherwise. |
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