Profile: Mike Heaton

Personal background
I'm a 27 year old Scouser, recently moved to the United States to live with my wife. I recently finished a PhD in Astrophysics studying Gamma-ray Bursts.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I run SETI@home because I'm interested in finding life other than our own in the universe, and I feel there must be considering the mass expanse of space there is. I'm not someone who believes that we've been visited, I'm not sure it's possible, but I'm still learning and finding my own ideas.

At the moment, the best way I can help is to run this program. I think it's a great idea about accumulating the help of thousands to millions of other people to help in the search. I just hope more continue to join, and so we can search more and more of the sky. Maybe we won't find anything now, but I don't think that means we should give up. I think one day, and that maybe a few decades, centuries or maybe millenia in the future, we'll eventually find something.
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