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| Personal background |
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I'm sixteen, I live in Sydney, Australia and I downloaded seti@home in 1997 but before I knew it my internet connection fell through... and I had to wait a couple of years before starting it up again. I'm a High School student doing physics, chemistry, and twice as much maths as most everyone else is doing. I also study japanese, and i have been since I was seven... I didn't know why then and I still don't know why now, but it's too late to stop, isn't it?
I hope to study cosmology in university once I get a good enough UAI [University Admission Index] for this year and next year. I never intended to get into science because it's a good career money wise or anything, I've always done it because I've enjoyed it, right now my favourite subject is Chemistry, which I am loving and doing fairly well at. In physics we're doing a subject called "The Cosmic Engine" and it's nothing new that i haven't studied before... I have read most of Stephen Hawking's books, and recently read "Stephen Hawking's Universe" by David Filkin. On the weekends I sail and play rugby, but in the off season i go for 15 kilometre runs and sprint sessions mid week. I'd just like to say UP UP CRONULLA!!! Go the sharks!
By the way in the picture I provided, it's one of only two I have, both from my sister's wedding... she's the one in the wedding dress, I am on the right. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| I do think extra terrestrial life exists, but also I think that the probability of sentient life forms living close enough for us to contact is very low. Life could exist as we speak on various places in our own system under our own noses. Mars, Europa, and Titan all hold a vague possibilty for extremophile bacteria to exist, but holding a conversation with such beings would prove more difficult than actually finding them. The closest system with the capacity for SENTIENT life is from memory about 12 lightyears away, but more is needed than a star with the right electromagnetic emission ratios... you need a planet at the right distance with the right temperature, atmosphere, mass, water, and other less major details. Probably a moon is an important factor, without our own moon forming a sort of dual-planet system, life on earth would be a lot less easy than it currently is. Also, even if such beings do exist so close to us against all the odds, they may still be in their stone age, or their dark age, not with the capacity to emit radio waves for us to detect. But i also think that despite these huge odds against any chance of a radio emitting race out there, it's more than worth it to make an effort to look. If and when we do find some cosmic cousins, we'll come into a new age of being, it will be the greatest discovery ever made by human kind, and i want to be a part of it. |
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