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| Personal background |
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Growing up in the 1960's and 70's I closely watched the space program as we progressed from manned flight to the first moon landing. It seemed incredible looking up at the sky at the moon and realizing that we had finally set foot on another celestial body. Now over 30 years later we have yet to take the step that seemed almost certainly to follow quickly thereafter, interplanetary flight. The SETI program was started on a similar timeframe. It seemed certain that we could not be alone in the universe, and we search for the answer to this and perhaps deeper questions that might explain our existance. I am pleased, after an absence from the program for a couple of years, to return to the SETI at home program and the search for the answer to the biggest question of them all; "Are we alone?".....
After working over 20 years in software design I am now semi-retired and working longer houts than before, how does tha work out? I have a consulting business CYDJ Designs specialising in open solutions, and a Yarn business run by my other half The Yarn and Fiber Company, and a dye studio for hand dying yarns Ivy Brambles.
Very much into keeping busy and fit and having as much fun as possible. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Recent research has indicated that life exists in many forms other than that which we at one time believed, both in extreme cold and extreme hot locations on Earth. I would be surprised if life was not found elsewhere in our solar system in the next few years, albeit at a microscopic level, let alone elsewhere in the universe. As our technology improves perhaps we will be able to detect signals from intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. Looking for these signals is a prerequisite to finding them. SETI@home is a great way to do this. Almost certainly any life we find in the universe will be just as unable to reach us as we them. Communication might be impossible with years between message and response, perhaps generations.
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