Profile: Andy Casey

Personal background
I was a 1980 baby, and as such old enough to have witness the sci-fi special effects revolution of the 80's and 90's, and young enough to watch all the pre 1980 films and appreciate their tacky charm.
I am a pilot and a scholar of Artificial Intelligence from Sussex and Westminster universities England, so I have the two required passions for the SETI program; the search for intelligence and the never ending reach for the skies.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
It is a certainty that extraterrestrial life exists but I don’t think we will necessarily discover the preverbal 'Little Green Men' the first contact will more than likely be the discovery of single cell organisms on one of our neighbouring planets, or a passing celestial body. This will unfortunately only answer one question with one very boring answer: 'yes'.

the thought of transmitting a signal to nearby solar systems is kind of redundant as we must be the noisiest planet in the universe, and the thought of transmitting some sort of structured information is laughable - if we did find a signal from another advanced civilisation we would not have a clue how to decipher it, and even if we did we would not be able to speak their language or translate their pictures, what hope would they have of understanding anything we send them! There is no Babel Fish - sorry kids!

So why has a sceptic like me installed SETI@home? Because maybe just maybe...
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