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| Personal background |
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I am a professional musician, play jazz, pop, classical. I've played for a living for over thirty years, and now I mainly teach.
My hobbies have been varied and rather strange, I have studied hypnosis (the therapeutic kind) and because of my interest in marine fish keeping I also became quite an expert on fish diseases.
I have kept all kinds of fresh water and marine animals, spiders, snakes and other reptiles.
I have an interest in microscopy and am a keen amateur photographer. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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When I was about ten years old I was lucky enough to have a siting of some craft over the skies of Sheffield in the UK where I was born.
I saw two large diamond shaped craft and about half a dozen, smaller, circular ones. These craft were capable of the most dramatic changes of speed and even made ninety degree turns without slowing.
Since that time I have had a firm belief in the existence of life in other regions of our universe. In fact it seems totally illogical to me that scepticism prevails still over this question.
My hope is that I will live long enough to finally see the proof.
I see no reason why we should transmit a beacon as, if communication exists between other species, our main task is to discover them.
I run SETI@home, because currently it is the most hopeful project around. I think, though, that we might be looking in the wrong direction. This is because I believe that any race with the ability to make interstellar travel would be so advanced that they would be using some other principal to communicate rather than with radio waves.
Perhaps some development of the quantum entanglement principal?
But we have to work with the tools available to us and this project is the best hope we have at present.
Also, I find the co-operation of so many people exhilarating, and I am amazed at the number of computer hours that have been generated. Think of the problems we could solve by such projects in the future.
Good luck to all the SETI@home community, and well done everyone! |
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