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| Personal background |
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| Updated - June 2006. I live in Nairn in the north of Scotland (UK)and was born in 1952. I\\'m in the fortunate position of not having to work so \\'retired\\' about 12 years ago from a career in overseas banking - I lived and worked in numerous countries, in the Middle and Far East and in Europe and enjoyed the experience a lot. But life is about more than work. I enjoy walking (mainly with my dog), classical music and opera, reading and numerous other things - for example cross-stitch tapestry (something I had always wanted to do until I stopped working, but never really had, or was able to make, the time for). I have almost always lived very close to the sea and that is where I now live - just about 50 yards from it in fact; it is very important to me to have an open outlook from where I live and from here I can see for miles - and at night it is quite dark (relatively few city lights), so I can see the stars very clearly when it is not cloudy. Another of my interests, obsessions really(!), is current affairs and politics - as an outlet for my rants about this and life in general I am one of the millions of people who have started my own weblog, or \\'blog\\', and this can be found at http://billcameron.blogspot.com from where you can also link to what I call my \\'main\\' website (http://www.billcameron.net) which is more general and personal in nature. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I first started doing seti@home about 7 years ago on my last computer, but it was much slower than this one and processing each unit took nearly 50 hours, as well as which I felt it affected my computer\\'s overall performance unacceptably, so I didn\\'t continue for very long. Now that I have a much faster machine with a much larger level of RAM it seems to work very well and each unit takes less than 4 hours and runs completely unobtrusively in the background with no discernible effect on my computer\\'s performance. (Since Febraury 2006 I have a second machine running on this account, a laptop with wireless capability. It seems to run rather quicker than my desktop, although I only have it switched on for 7 or 8 hours a day so the number of units I can process on it is not huge.)
Whether there is extra-terrestrial life is a question we all ponder - I tend to think there must be because it seems to me incredbile that ours is the only star with a life-bearing planet orbiting it out of the billions of stars in the universe. The sheer distances involved do, however, make me believe that it may be some CENTURIES before we become aware of them, or they of us. Assuming we do detect signals which indicate intelligent life, one imagines these signals will have been travelling for a LONG time so those sending them will most likely be much more advanced than us. In one way this might be a worry, but as the eternal optimist I would like to think that their advanced status will have brought with it enlightened attitudes so that even if they consider us very primitive by their standards they will at least regard us amicably and not aggressively.
I think it a worthwhile exercise to try and identify ET-life and if my small contribution can help then I am glad to offer it. |
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