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| Personal background |
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I live and work in the midlands in the U.K and I work in the Space Industry designing and manufacturing high quality electronics for Astrophysics research. I work in a small group at an academic institute and we develop instrumentation for astrophysics applications mainly in the X-Ray and Infra-red spectrum. Out latest venture in partnership with other institutes and industry was the development of Beagle2, the UK's life sciences endeavour to the Red Planet, which has unfortunatley not been found since landing on December 25th.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Life elsewhere in the Universe? Well of course there is!
The chances that Earth is the only place where conditions were just right for life to start are so small that there must be life elsewhere. Do I think that life could be so far advanced compared to ourselves that they fly around the galaxy in spacecraft?, that's another question. I don't know. I suppose it's feasible and perhaps we are not that far off doing the same thing ourselves.
One of the questions I often wonder is does life ever get much beyond our stage of evolution before it self annihilates, uses up all available resources and dies or reaches such critcal mass that disease takes over before being able to move out into the galaxy. We can already see signs in our own world of the self distructive nature of higher lifeforms. Sure, perhaps we are not all the same and on other worlds the direction of life has taken different routes, avoiding what seems to be the inevitable. I hope so.
I joined SETI to help answer this final question. I don't think we need to send a beacon. If there is intelligent life in the Universe capable of spotting our beacon, it probably knows we are here already.
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