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| Personal background |
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Hi I live in Grimsby on the East coast of the UK. I am currently 47 years young nearing 48. I am married with 4 children, whom all still live at home with me.
I won't go into occupations other than to say I earn a crust.
My main hobby is Photography (now digital), computing and astronomy. However I am new to astronomy, but has always facinated me. I have just aquired a small Meade NG-60 to get me actively started after all these years. I think I'm adicted now after seeing the beautiful rings of Saturn for he first time in my life. She is one of the most beautifull things I have ever seen, but only after my wife and children.
I have an ambition now to marry photography and astronomy together, but shall have to wait a little longer until I can upgrade to something a little more sophisticated and exotic than the meade NG-60.
I originally became a member to Seti@Home in 2001 and after 12 units, I had problems with the box of tricks that drove the program and running a modem at the time. I upgraded to a new PC and recently broadband, but I had not resumed SETI until now in 2006. Now that I am up and running again at speed I think this little box can do the job SETI wants.
Kindest regards
Allan :) |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I think SETI is important not only to ourselves but to whatever or whoever is out there, we need to communicate and to know of other existances. The universe is a bit big for us to be the only lifeforms that use technology.
I run SETI to help number crunch the data that has been gathered and is important that I do afterall being a passenger on this small drifting orb I ought to put something in to life rather than what I can get out of it. SETI is a worthwile project, and a valuable one, it may in the long run help explain our own existance and of others.
What I would like to see from SETI is a visual map of the areas that have been explored so far within our seeable universe and any significant areas of interest. Also a more explained section on what these figures that have been crunched actually mean, its nice to see the graphical repsresentaion twirling in 3D, but I still prefer the old SETI graphical display, pehaps this could be possible?
Kindest regards
Allan :) |
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