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| I currently live in a small village near Warwick, in the Midlands, UK. I was born in March 1982, not far from where I live. I work as a technical support analyst for an insurance company based in Stratford upon Avon. My interests and hobbies include anything to do with space, science fiction or science fact; I enjoy working with computers and I'm practically a collector, I currently own 4 desktops and 3 laptops of widely varying age and spec from a Pentium 100 with 32Mb RAM to a PIII 750 with 192Mb RAM; I also enjoy skateboarding and watching all extreme sports, I like motorsports of all kind too, but I can't stand sports like Football (Soccer), Rugby, Fishing, Golf, Cricket, etc. - Far too boring! I tend to keep all my old computers and software and keep them running as long as possible. This means I have a fully working Commodore 64 with hundreds of software titles. My Amiga 500 doesn't work at the moment as the power supply has gone, but the software is all there and working. I also have a fully functional Sega Megadrive, Super Nintendo, GameBoy (original), and others. Most used machines are my PIII 650 laptop and my Palm Pilot. Only 2 of my machines run SETI@home (1 desktop, and 1 laptop). |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I heard about SETI@home on the TV, I think it was on a show called 'Tomorrow's World' on the BBC. Of course I went straight to the site and downloaded the software immediately!
I run SETI@home to help the SETI project. I think the most important question Mankind has in this age is 'Are we alone?' and I want to be part of the huge team that is most likely to find the answer. I already know the answer is 'No', the question should really be 'When will Mankind know we are not alone?'. The SETI@home project is possibly the most brilliant idea in the last 20 years. To use so many machines around the world to enhance the SETI project's processing power is genius!
Even if there is no intelligent life in our galaxy, Man will eventually find them in other galaxies, most likely via a project like or based upon the SETI@home project. We will, before the end of this century, venture into other planetary systems and descover basic forms of life.
My only hope is that all of this happens sooner rather than later, and hopefully within my lifetime. |
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