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| Personal background |
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A former science teacher and deputy head, teaching mostly Chemistry in various London schools. (BSc from Durham University, PhD from London).
I'm now retired and living in a remote part of north-west England.
I've always been interested in Astronomy, so SETI (and einstein@home) provide an opportunity to continue making a small contribution to science now I'm retired.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I think there's only a very small possibility of ever making contact with other, extra-terrestrial civilisations - if any exist. But if it happened, it would be one of the most important discoveries ever made and would change our whole outlook, so it is well worth trying. Therefore SETI@home is a good way to use spare computer capacity.
I'd already run SETI for some years, but after changing computers I just couldn't figure out how to resume.* (Maybe I'm a bit dumb or, as a suggestion, maybe the instructions could be improved to make this fairly common transition easier).
* In the end I started a new SETI account - to run along with the einstein@home project (and lhc@home, if/when it gets started). |
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