Profile: Roger Davis

Personal background
I live in South Gloucestershire, England and I've just hit 50.

What?

Yes, I know I don't look it but there you go.

I've spent all my working life in I.T. I started off as a mainframe operator but now I spend most of my time writing Delphi and PHP programs.

As for interests, I'm interested in anything interesting really. If you want all the gory details have a look at my web site (www.quadratic.f9.co.uk). It saves me typing it all out again!

I run three PC's at home, running Linux, NT4 and XP. They're all on permanently so there's pleny of spare CPU time to donate to distributed processing projects. SETI@home runs on my XP machine. My NT4 machine runs a similarly structured project 'Lifemapper'(www.lifemapper.org), another subject close to my heart.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I am absolutely sure extraterrestrial life exists.

The idea that there are countless billions of other worlds out there and all of them devoid of life is totally absurd.

However, whether any inhabited planets are suffiently close as to make it worthwhile sarching for them is less certain. SETI must be one of very few projects in existance which is actually limited by the speed of light! Even within our own galaxy the inhabitants of a distant planet transmitting today may be extinct for thousands of years before we receive their signal and, of course, the same fate may have befallen the senders of anything we may receive today.

But we must search because we can. I think the SETI@home project is a brilliant idea and an excellent way of using all that otherwise wasted computer time.
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