Why Moonglum? I overheard a conversation about a book called "Elric at the end of time", during which I heard talk of a character call Moonglum, Elric's now departed sidekick. I thought it was just such a fantasticly original name that I have taken this name for all my points of presence on the web. Since then I have found other Moonglums all over the place, over 60 in with hotmail addresses. It would seem that Moonglum is anything but original.

Clampflower?!!?? I went to see Motorhead in concert at the Civic Hall in Guildford, Surrey. They were painfully loud! The following day my head was like the bell tower of NotreDame Cathedral. I went to work and got a phone call from a Ms Lamplow. This name with the additions of whistles and bells from the previous night seeped in to my brain as Clampflower, much to the amusement of my colleagues.

Wassuuppp? Writing stuff, having a Hoegaarden or Leffe, occasionally sipping Absynth. Judging by the write up it has much the same effect as a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster. Drink up before it eats through the glass!!

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ET life does exist. With the vastness of space and the huge amount of matter present, ET life is a dead certanty. The difficult part is finding it. If you consider that radio waves travel at near light speed, signals from planet Earth will only have got around 60 light years away from Earth, so if ET life has evolved to our level, it is very unlikely that we will see any of their signals yet. However, if we do get a signal, then this will most probably have come from ET with a few thousand years of radio technology and we could learn so much from them if we could make contact somehow.

Should Humans transmit a beacon for others to find? Well we already are so that answers that one. All our radio and TV signals winging their way through space.

I think SETI is fantastic and am greatly honoured to be a part of the program. Suggestions? Oodles of patience. :-)