Profile: The Balrog

Personal background
I live on the coast in the central south UK. Married with a son studying at university. We enjoy sailing and watersports in general. I work as a mechanical engineer running my own business designing just about anything anyone wants from huge steel rolling mills through oil & gas to simple car road trailers. Incidentally, just completed a trailer for a pair of zorbs (A zorb is a 3.2m (11ft) clear plastic blow up ball that idiots get into and chuck themselves down hills - see www.zorbsouth.co.uk)
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
Whilst we are now able to observe nearly to the edge of the universe, nothing I have read precludes other big bangs having occurred elsewhere in the infinity of space. If the chance of a big bang happening is less than one to infinity, elementary maths demands that there was/is an infinite number of big bangs.
The same reasoning can be applied to the existence of extraterrestrial life. - It’s Infinite.

Will we find it – Who knows, it depends where it is. SETI@Home is worthy of our support; our first feeble attempt with an outside chance of success. The quest for discovery and knowledge is intrinsic to intelligent life, otherwise how does intelligence develop, so we can be sure ET is also looking.
Should we transmit a beacon – No not yet, that would be shining a hand torch at the Moon. Let’s evaluate any incoming signal first and have an open debate on whether and how to respond. There’s no rush, given the potential distances, two way communication at light speed is going to be a protracted affair and won’t happen in my lifetime.

I run SETI@home as a feeble contribution to forward man’s knowledge. Even if we don’t find ET there’s a possibility that the processed data may reveal something else of interest to astronomy. Anyway it’s a bit of fun.
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