| Personal background |
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I'm 38 years old and I live in Nottingham, England. I am an architect of software solutions.
At the moment I am freelance. I enjoy the challange of analysing and defining solutions to requirements.
I'm a keen cook and love throwing a few things together in a pan and seeing what happens. I have been playing guitar for some years now, never as well as I would like, but it keeps me happy.
The best thing in my life are my children, close friends and of course my fiancee Sue. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Does extraterrestrial life exist? Well you'd have to be narrowed minded to not consider the probability that Earth is the only place in the Universe where life has evolved.
The benefits of discovering life on other planets are hard to gauge. Only by close contact can I see any benefits, mainly new technology and exposure to a different culture.
I feel that should extraterrestrial life be discovered, there may be a polarising effect on Earth. There are people who are deeply religious and believe that God created Earth for man. If life is discovered elsewhere, what then of their beliefs. The polarity would be their dispair and loss of belief set against the hopes, and maybe apprehension of those who have chosen not to follow a religious path.
There is no need for us to transmit a beacon. There are already approximately 500,000 stars over which our transmissions have washed during the last 75 years. These transmissions although jumbled, contain a structure which is clearly not random and therefore can be interpreted as intelligent in origin. If we have nearby neighbours capable of radio reception, they may be listening to us already!
I'm running SETI@home because I believe in knowledge, distributed computing provides a useful tool where large amounts of data need to be analysed in the persuit of knowledge. |
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