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| Personal background |
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| I'm an Englishman from Luton in Bedfordshire. First ran computers in 1977, a NCR (Never Completely Repaired) mainframe with 128Kb of memory. Stayed in the game for about 11 years then got out before I went mad, it wasn't the machines you understand it was the users. About four years ago I eventually got my own P.C., with 128Mb. A small box sitting in the corner of my living room with, on memory alone, 1000 times the computing power of that room full of equipment 23 years earlier. Having spent my professional, then D.P (it used to mean Data Processing) now I.T , life squeezing the last ounce of performance out of machines, the thought of all this power going to waste was anathema to me, so, as a life long Science Fiction fan, finding Seti@Home was a wonderful way of using all that computer power. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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For sure extraterrestrial life exists, the universe is so damned big that statistically life must exist somewhere else within it. Of course, it could be so far away that we never discover it.
For sure extraterrestrial life exists, the universe has been around so long at
some time it must have existed. Of course it may not be there just now.
If we sit here and wait for it to come to us then we will come second, look at our own history, the Aborigine of Australia, tha Aztecs of South America and the plains, and other, Indians of North America, but we need to know that there is somebody out there worth going to see before our society will be willing to spend the money necessary to fund interstellar exploration. And we need to find them, we as a human species need to find something alien against which we can compare ourselves and realise that the differences between the various communities on our planet our so trifling as to be inconsequential.
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