Hi, I'm a 34 year old freelance software consultant. I develop software solutions for the telecomms industry here in England. I've been doing this for four years now and I'm still going strong. I used to fly planes but I've put that on hold while I attend to redecorating the house I own with my girfriend Christiana. I love travelling and would jump at the chance of a trip into space if it ever becomes affordable.
I heard about SETI@HOME a few years ago but never got round to downloading the client. Well a friend resparked my interest when he mentioned he'd been using his work machine for this purpose. So I downloaded the client that night.
I have 4 machines in my home network. Most of them are now running the client all day while I'm at work. The network server runs it all the time as it hasn't got much else to do. I'm still trying to talk Christiana into letting me put it on her machine.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
My gut feeling is that this can't be the only planet in the universe which has spawned life. There has to be something else out there. Whether it’s intelligent enough to receive our transmissions is another question. When will first contact be made is anyone's guess. Maybe they've already heard and are just waiting for the right moment.
Should we really be announcing our existence? Well, if you were to believe most of Hollywood then no. We'd all be assimilated the moment they set foot on earth. But I'm hoping that whatever we find out there, it won’t be intent on stealing our women and destroying our planet. The universe would be a lonely place if we were the only life in it!
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.
