Profile: Tex Perkin

Personal background
I'm 39 and I live in the Australia having moved back here from the UK in November 2002. I have three boys (two with Cystic Fibrosis) and a daughter.

I'm into: computer gaming (especially online), karate, running and music.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
The chances of life spontaneously occurring are inconceivably small. However, this is an inconceivably VAST universe. There's gotta be some sort of life out there somewhere although can we even imagine what it might be like. All we can really be sure of is that, if there is life on other worlds, it must obey the same physical laws. Therefore, why shouldn't we be able to communicate and interact?

As for the question of should we try and contact it, we either already have (the amount of background noise generated on Earth and picked up by SETI experiments attests to this) or there's no point in hiding from another intelligence anyway - they should be able to find us. And when you think of the amount of technological advance that the human race has undergone in just the last century, it would be naive to think that we are going to be more advanced than them. So I say, shout into the void as much as possible - at least we'll be sending something WE think is peaceful.
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