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| Personal background |
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| I was born in Canandaigua, New York -- near Rochester in the Finger Lake District -- in 1948. I've lived in may places since then, including Europe and Southeast Asia. My longest residence was in the Washington, DC area (over 35 years), but I now call the San Francisco Bay area home. My wife and I own and operate a bed and breakfast inn in the charming little coastal town of Half Moon Bay, California, 27 miles South of San Francisco. We have three grown sons, who live in Baltimore and Annapolis, Maryland. My hobbies are film (especially "classics", thrillers, war movies, westerns, sci-fi, and older films -- and I enjoy following the offerings of specific actors and directors), music (rock, jazz, and classical), art (impressionists are favorites), travel (try to go someplace new for a month each year), and theatre (undergraduate degree in theatre from Northwestern University). |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. I absolutely believe life exists outside our own little blue ball, and I hope that I can still be here when we make contact. I suspect that when we do finally make contact it will be a great day -- because we'll know officially that we are not alone in this vast universe -- and it'll be a sad day, because we'll realize how much effort it will take for us ever to meet face to face.
2. I think we should constantly transmit a signal of some sort, and I suggest it be mathematical in content, theory of relativity maybe, or perhaps musical -- something classical, maybe Motzart.
3. I run SETI@home because it makes me feel a minute but critical part of a magnificent undertaking, something that probably couldn't be done to this magnitude in any other way. I feel connected to all humanity when I think of what we are attempting to achieve, and what the consequences of our inevitable success will be. |
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