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| Personal background |
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Now working for a well known US company (scientific instruments, laboratory equipments), but first was serving the merchant navy as radio officer on french tankers, call signs FNMV, FNHG, etc...
I use a ham callsign too, F5YG, since 1967, working, at night, only CW (the Morse telegraphy code) on the 160 m and 80 m bands.
In the time remaining, I'm using and supporting Linux (since 1994), programming in C and assembler and, quite unrelated, play organ in our church, the large, liturgical one, with a lot of pipes (german and french music, 17th-18th centuries : Dietrich Buxtehude, Johann Pachelbel, Georg Boehm, Johann-Sebastian Bach, Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers, Jacques Boyvin, Nicolas de Grigny, Francois Couperin, Louis-Claude d'Aquin, ...). |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I started Seti@home in 1999, before BOINC, after reading the works of Iosif Shklovsky, Carl Sagan, Nikolaï Kardashev and Frank Drake.
The statistical chance to receive an artificial radio signal from a civilization abroad in our Universe is not high, but I share with enthusiasm my spare machine cycles for this project. The simple fact it is located in UC Berkeley is a garantee of scientific seriousness and reliability.
Why not try other wavelengths? If I had to send a beacon signal for our friends from abroad, sure I did not use 21 cm to prevent interference with human radiotelescopes. But, anyways, who knows... |
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