I was in my second last year of high school and reading a lot of pulp sci-fi and pop-science. I’d just started reading a paperback about SETI – the search for extra terrestrial life – and on its cover was a picture of the plaque attached to Voyager 1, now heading out into interstellar space. Back in 1980 the fact that an organisation looking for alien life actually existed meant it seemed entirely possible that beings from another planet might just arrive. After all, we seemed ready…

Oh well, we’re still waiting. But it was wonderful that many years later I got to actually shoot at SETI. Meanwhile any Aliens reading my news section, this is the desk of one of the Humans looking for you. Just saying…

Asteroid Impact: SETI Institute, San Francisco.