|
| Personal background |
|---|
| Hi, my name is James Monks & I'm a uni student studying computing at City University. I have 2cats(frankenstein and egypt) & 1rat(curly, who seems to scare the cats??) I have lived in London (UK) since I was born, but still the find the need to ask tourists for directions as my sense of direction is bit ... jaded at times. My interests are varied, I enjoy programming, skating, boarding, watching movies at the cinema, playing PC games and Capoeira (brazilian martial art disguised inside dance movements by south american slaves). I currently work at The Playing Fields as a games host(a gaming arena, a most fortuitous place to work considering my interests :D), & have helped host national/international CPL(PC) championships. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
|---|
Whether sentient life exists? Well I guess that's why I'm helping to search. I remember an equation where there is a way to calculate how much life there is in the universe if you could fill in a few constants, but this presumes that our solar system represents a normality. I feel there is a good chance of their being Extra terrestrial life, as there are only so many combinations of atoms, & from that, a species that has developed 'extelligence' (think about it) to boot, that I feel life must have evolved elsewhere, somewhere. But in a documentary in the UK called ‘2 minutes to midnight’, it showed on an evolutionary scale how long we have been around. If Earth history was represented by a 24hr day, Homo Sapiens would have only existed from 2 mins to midnight. Of this 2mins though, how long have we sent SETI signals? How long are we likely to continue? If there is alien life, I hope they live long enough to tell other civilisations about us, as we don't seem to be doing too well at the moment.
Anything else to send? I think we should send the recipe for pizza, peanut butter,
I'm not 100% completely convinced of arguments for:
a)an intelligence existing right now, b)having sent signals then & c)within listening distance, but I'm enjoying taking the journey to find out. The project has helped me crystallise my views on intelligent life (in that I'm not sure *lol*). Suggestions I would make to the seti@home team is to host a chat channel/forum to get people together. To have a picture of the sky map for each person, showing what parts of the sky they scanned, to get some idea of where exactly we've "been" & how we have helped. If you likes these ideas, mail seti@home about it. I hope we will be as prepared to meet aliens as we are willing to find them.
G'night JimBob, Mary Sue-Ellen, qxwrtkle ; |
| Your feedback on this profile |
|---|
| Recommend this profile for User of the Day: |
I like this profile |
| Alert administrators to an offensive profile: |
I do not like this profile |
|
|
