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| Personal background |
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Toronto, Canada.
Locomotive Engineer
Education Officer
Member: Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 10 yrs.
Home made 6" f/7 mirror and Newtonian scope.
I made the tube and mount from PVC sewer pipe, the spider was
fashioned from a lamp shade. The hand ground primary mirror
is exceptional at around 1/20th raliegh wave according to
the technician at the David Dunlap Observatory who recently
re-aluminized it.
Education: Various certs at local colleges and a few unfinished
years at U of Toronto in Bsc Geology.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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There are so many possibilities of life forms and so many
places for them to develop or to have developed, that I think
extraterrestrial life is inevitable.
The depth of time and space being as vast as it is, the
probability is we may find signals of intelligent life that
has long since moved on. It is even highly likely that we will
find evidence of ancient primitive life in our own solar system and
perhaps piggybacking on asteriods and comets.
Whether the life is in existence at the same time as earths or
not, such a discovery would change the human perspective
markedly. If an advanced civilisation seeks out other life in the
galaxy, that is proof enough that they place a high value on
life itself and contact could only mean to benefit both
theirs and ours.
We have been accidentally sending signals of various sorts into
space for half a century, so it couldn't hurt to explain ourselves
to whomever may be listening!
In the late 80's I independently came up with the idea that if we
could entice everybody who owned a 386 to process a bit of raw data,
we could solve the computation problem. I thought we could sell the
floppies in grocery stores and lottery booths for a buck and place
part of the proceeds to the prize fund and the interest funds could
be used for new hardware.
I envisioned everybody going out to buy a PC just for the lottery
and that new guy what was his name..Bill Gates would be happy to supply the software. As bonuses, a contestant who turned up a new radio galaxy or black hole could have it named after him/her.
I wrote to Dr. Sagans office with this idea and heres the laugh:
Someone did some counting, and it was determined that IF the project
worked as planned, that most of the worlds money would be tied up in the
lottery by the new millenium, causing a disastrous financial depression!
I am very happy that the project is the way it is, and like ET life itself
the SETI project was inevitable!
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