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| Personal background |
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I live in Brisbane, Australia. I have taught High School Science and Mathematics for 32 years and finished my teaching career teaching Maths and Physics online (synchronous voice/data connections) to students in remote parts of Queensland. This is an exciting project and required all the skills and knowledge I have gathered over the years.
I have a degree in Physics and nearly became a Radio Astronomer in my youth - but that is a longer story. I spent a short time at the Great Radio Telescope at Parkes and the film "The Dish" brought back strong memories. My country is well placed for astronomy and has a long history of achievements in that field.
I am a conservationist in my spare time and am an honorary life member and past president of the Australian Marine Conservation Society. I managed web sites in this regard: Australian Marine Conservation Society, Save-Ningaloo, Stop the Toad Campaign and Halt the Salt.
My hobbies include boating/fishing, camping, wood turning and other workshop type projects. I enjoy reading science fiction - particulaly Asimov whose books occupy nearly 2 metres on my shelves. My personal web site (needs updating) can be found at Family. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I have been running Seti since July 2000 and believe it is an excellent project for two reasons:
One is of course that we may detect ETI and the second is that it is a powerful demonstration of cooperative effort on a world wide basis.
I cannot concede that this planet is the only source of life or indeed intelligent life in the universe. Miniscule probabilities become certainties with enough events and each star is an event! Finding and contacting ETI is a problem though given that light travels a bit too slowly but we should continue to look. Should we find even a trace of evidence the philosophical ramifications for us earthlings is enormous. Being an optimist I like to think that after an initial upheaval we may become a more cohesive and cooperative species.
Australian telescopes should also be more involved in the search given its critical location for possible sources in the Milky Way. |
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