| Personal background |
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I Live in London, UK, and have been interested in computers since the early 70's
as an avid reader of SciFi the SETI project appealed to me and when I was able
to build my own pc, it seemed like an ideal time to join in.
I'm ex Armed forces, and have spent a good deal of time in Africa, my family having emigrated to what was then Southern Rhodesia in 1947..
In 1959 we returned to the UK for a short time [2 years] then went back to Africa, but I returned on my own in 1969 and joined the R.A.F in 1970.
After leaving the R.A.F in 1974 I spent another 3 years in Africa [R.S.A]
Then came back to the UK and joined the reserve forces [Armour] and worked
for British Telecom, where my interest in online datacomms came to the fore and
I persuaded my employers to 'loan' me a modem in 1984 and from then on I spent more time online to Multi User Games than I sould have:-)
I've been retired since 1995 and now spend my time building my own computers,
and enjoying the company of my long suffering wife, and my Pyrenean Mountain Dog 'Sid' and a small toitoise shell cat, MissKitty..otherwise known as the 'manic moggie'.
I've just 'upgrade' to an Athlon XP1800 in order to crunch more WU.. guess I
have been well and truly bitten by the SETI bug:-)
Cliff aka Gianarth [mud character:-)] |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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[1] If I didnt think the possibility of ET life existed, I wouldnt be participating in the SETI@HOME project:-)
Benefits? The knowledge we arent alone in the universe, possible chance to communicate with another spiecies [remote given distance]
Dangers? Some bunch of lunatics may decide that ET life wants us exterminated
and try to help ET out.. I cant see any ET species posing a realtime threat to
the Earth.. Time and Distance tend to preclude interstellar warfare without
FTL transport of some kind, and thats pure speculation:-)
[2]Transmit a beacon? I though we already were, ever since the discovery of radio we've been spamming the galaxy with all sorts of traffic..Thats something
no one seems to have considered, maybe some interstellar cops will have a warrant out for indescriminate broadcasting of radio transmissions:-)As for sending specific information, I think anything listening to our radio and tv broadcasts probably knows more than we'd like:-)
[3]Because I can?Because the project interests me and I like trying to see how fast I can crunch a WU:-) The project is worthwhile, hell if the people behind it didnt think so it wouldnt be in existance.. I share that view.
Sugestions, nope I think a good few hundred are posted in the newsgroups that
are frequented by setizens:-) As long as I can connect and upload/download WU's
I'm happy:-)
Cliff |
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