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| Personal background |
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I am a systems analyst by profession, but am currently taking time off to care for a sick relative and to further my activism for equal rights for gay people. I am an ardent constitutional scholar, and write articles pertaining to the rights of gay people under the law, particularly following the US Supreme Court's decisions in _Romer v. Evans_, 517 U.S. 620 (1996) and _Lawrence v. Texas_, 539 U.S. 558 (2003). I am also a writer and political commentator. I am proud to call myself a "card-carrying" member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and take pleasure in attacking extremist right-wing organizations such as the "Family Research Council," the "American Family Association," the "Family Research Institute," and "Focus on the Family."
To me, it is axiomatic that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe. The sun is a mediocre star in a mediocre part of a medicore galaxy. There are between 200 and 400 billion stars in our galaxy alone, and there are literally billions of galaxies in the universe. I believe that intergalactic travel is possible through controlled creation of Einstein-Rosen bridges, and that the Earth has already been visited by extra-terrestrial civilizations. Several members of my immediate family have reported seeing UFOs; one such member is a pilot who has flown for several decades, and who reported seeing a UFO in 1972 while flying a passenger airplane.
I was born and raised in South Africa, but left that country in 1986 for political reasons. I spent 18 years in the US, where I developed my career as a systems analyst, and have lived in the UK for just under a year.
My hobbies include surfing the Internet, writing legal essays pertaining to equal protection theory and substantive due process, and reading and documenting case law pertaining to the rights of gay people. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| I run SETI@home because I believe that the underlying model -- distributing the workload to literally thousands of computers that run independently -- is the most cost efficient method of analyzing data gleaned from taking "snapshots" of the universe at discrete points in time. I am aware of the fact that a computer running the SETI@home program found an anomaly several months ago, but that this anomaly has not yet been verified. Distributed systems, in which thousands of computers attack a complex problem by breaking it down into smaller problems, are the most likely to succeed in a task of such enormity. |
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