Profile: Mark Humphrys

Personal background
I'm a life long amateur astronomer, currently a member of the Norwich Astronomical Society. We've got a 2.5 acre observatory site about 8 miles south of Norwich, England. It has a 7 metre dome housing an LX200 and a smaller dome that is currently being renovated ready for a small refractor.

We've also started a small group interested in radio astronomy. Our first efforts are building a copy of the RadioJove setup, though we are using an Icom R7000 receiver instead of a home built one. So far we haven't had any definate signals from Jupiter but it is early days yet. Future plans include the resoration of two 4metre dishes that are situated about 100metres apart - we would like to set up an interferometer using them - what we lack at the moment is the technical expertise.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
Extraterrestrial Life? I'm one of those people who cannot believe that we are alone in this galaxy. There must be other life out there, not necessarily intelligent, but definately life. There should be plenty of niche environments for life to start and be sustained. Look at all the niche environments on Earth that you would have thought to be too extreme for life - deep caves, hydrothermal vents, deep in the Earth's crust, boiling mud pools, and highly toxic environments such as waste tips from mining waste - all of these contain life/bacteria etc in one form or another. So why not in space?
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