| Personal background |
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Aged 36, but with the idealism of a 16 year old. Living in Wickford, England UK and work in IT Security consulting for one of the Big 6,5,4... accounting firms.
Hobbies are mainly football (soccer) related: Supporting Arsenal and, at the time of writing, England in the World Cup.
Not a techie - but wouldn't mind having a play with Unix/Linux sometime. However I generally prefer technology to work for me out of the box - Life's too short to tinker.
(update on the above - I succumbed and bought an Alpha box from ebay. It's gonna take me weeks to get it working) |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Hope someone discovers evidence of life elsewhere - if there is anything there, we should discover it in the next 50 years. Guess it'll be frustrating though -the distances involved would be too far to have a meaningful dialogue and the civilisation that created it may have died out before we send a reply (cf. Drake's equation). A discovery would create a bit of a panic in some religious circles - might be fun to watch.
We should send something simple - a repeating binary count up to 10. And send it strongly across multiple wavebands. This is unambiguous and would act as a beacon. Let's send our location and pictures of us and our world on a single frequency. Or we could play an intergalactic practical joke and send pictures we made up!
I go into this SETI thing in Feb 2002 - after hearing that one of my work colleagues was installing a Cray in his garage to up his score. Never got the internet link back to Berkeley working until June 2002 - One day it just worked when it never had previously.
I'm doing it to put something back into wider society - although as it's free, I should probably make efforts in other areas. Watch out for me helping old ladies across the road in a street near you soon.
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