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| Personal background |
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I'm a 46 year old Unix Consultant, married to Anne with two children, Andrew and Catherine. My hobbies include Astronomy, computers, real ones that is and I love reading Science Fiction. I have a library of circa 2000 SF books, many of which are out of print now. On the visual side of SF I love Babylon 5, oh how I wish all TV and movie SF could be of this quality.
My other main hobby is the study of World War I. My nick is taken from my website in honour of Britain's most highly decorated serviceman in thar war, Captain Noel Godfrey Chavasse, VC and Bar, MC, RAMC who died on 4th August 1917.
I live near Liverpool in the UK although we seem to spend a fair amount of time in Southern California for some reason :)
All my work units have been crunched by me alone - I share a team (Unix_Junkies) with eight like minded boys and girls
and we have contributed over 30000 WUs so far.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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With circa 100 000 000 000 stars (at least) in our galaxy alone and at least the same number of galaxies in the visible universe, I think it is very very unlikely that we are alone.
Whether we are able to understand an extraterrestrial signal is something I'm not convinced by yet, as so far we can't even communicate with pretty intelligent Earth lifeforms such as cetaceans. Dogs must be really bright as they can understand us perfectly!
Communicating via radio to another solar system may be an unachievable dream but so what? Have you anything better to do with those unused cpu cycles?
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