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I am in my late thirties and live in Dover, England. I spent a year studying accountancy which seemed way too much like hard work so I joined the civil service instead where I have remained ever since. I have quite an active job at the \\'sharp end\\' working 12 hr shifts which means I get loads of time off to pursue my hobbies.
I enjoy training at the gym, cycling and motorcycling in the summer and try to get in a snowboarding holiday in the Colorado Rockies most years. Last year I went to New Zealand on a Lord of the Rings pilgrimage which was fantastic. I always build my own pc systems from scratch and do upgrades for friends and relations. I maintain a website at www.planetangus.com and have dabbled with coding. I also like to let off steam playing games like Unreal Tournament and the Tombraider series. I enjoy reading fantasy fiction, going to the movies, playing Advanced Dungeons and Dragons RPG and looking after my 4 pet tarantulas. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I think SETI@Home is an excellent project and I am happy for my pc to help although I feel the chances of it actually achieving it\\'s ends are extremely slim. I definitely believe many sentient lifeforms are out there and dearly hope we find them but the factors against success are huge. SETI only scans a tiny portion of the sky so we may miss signals because we\\'re just not looking in the right direction. Also the Universe is so incredibly vast that signals may take millions of years to span the distance and civilisations and whole worlds can fall in the meantime, including our own.
I love the idea of manned space exploration but our current capabilities are just so limited that we are unlikely to ever get any further than our own solar system. A quantum leap in understanding and technology is required before we can hope to travel any meaningful distance out into space.
However, we need to get our act together at home before mankind colonises other worlds. Homo Sapiens are such a destructive species that everything we touch dies - look at what we are doing to each other, other species and our own planet to see this. Mankind does not deserve to spread it\\'s self destruction and unsustainable exploitation any further. Any species and worlds we discover along the way could expect more of the same unless they were in a position to teach mankind a much needed lesson in humility. I firmly believe that sadly the only way mankind will ever put it\\'s countless differences aside is if it is faced with an overwhelming extraterrestrial threat.
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