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| Personal background |
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I live in the middle of Kent, England. My email address is my date of birth (UK format). Married 42 years; don't understand people who say you have to work at marriage - ours has been a laugh all the way! Have had two dogs covering last 23 years. (So the wife's winning, so far!) The kids were wise, they grew up.
I "retired" in 1986 due to Wolff-Parkinson-Syndrome being a nuisance. Most of my working life was in sales; from knocking doors to running my own team of financial services sales staff.
I had never been one for hobbies; I got bored as soon as I'd mastered whatever it was; so tended to move on to the next project. However, in recent years I taught myself what I could about writing; had a few short stories published in glossy mags; wrote two fantasy ufo novels and wrote several short tv scripts; and a tv serial script of 7 by 40 minute episodes.
A television production company rated me as "Inspired, original and off the wall". Strange really, they changed their minds about branching out from documentaries into comedy drama! Must be my aftershave, or was it something I wrote...
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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My Christian background tells me there is no one out there. Yet, why not? I don't think it contradicts my faith, just needs a lot of explaining; maybe we'll never be able to explain, but that doesn't rule it out. Us humans do not know it all, and have a lot to learn... and not enough time to individually learn it before we move on to where we will know.
If we have a latent yearning to find ET, is that because there is someone to find and we are drawn to that end?
There are countless carbon based life sites out there for sure - even in our own galaxy - let alone trillions of trillions more. So, yes, there is intelligent life there.
Persistance will find them eventually; or they'll find us. Probably using the same means as us. Just think: this very second as I write this, there is a retired colour blind insurance man typing the very same thing on a planet so far away from another colour blind idiot doing the same, (Wow, that's me!)
As for benefits and dangers: whatever anyone's opinions are on this, we could be too late already. Our signals are well on their way, and we hope their's are coming our way.
So, yes, let's go for it. Use our increasing technology to broaden our transmissions as well as receiving capabilities. As to what info to send: something to say what, where and who we are I guess. Once we've introduced ourselves, take 'em down the pub.
I am running SETI to participate in this great project, in the hope that together we can achieve our latent yearnings; to know, we are not alone.
I think it's a wonderful project and feel honoured that I am able to take part, be it only a tiny part.
As for suggestions, I'm new to this and perhaps I could answer that at a later date... Hold on a mo! The door bell's going. There's a little grey fella with a light on the end of his finger... |
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