Profile: Phil Weber

Personal background
I am a 51 year old commercial airline captain with interests in aviation, computers, hunting, amateur radio, astronomy, sports, auto racing, and scuba diving. I have a wife and a son and live in Hellertown, PA. USA. Most of my flying is to the Caribean, North and Central America where I take along an Celestron NexStar 5/Coronado PST. My home scope is a pier-mounted NexStar 8 GPS with an Orion ED80 APO refractor in a home-built and designed, fully autonomous robotic obsrvatory. I presently use an SBIG ST7in the obseratory and a SAC7a in conjuction with a Pentax *ist DS for portable astrophotography. My educational background is in Meteorology and Computer Science and studied at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas and am currently a post-grad student working on a Masters of Science in Astronomy from Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
Statistics and probablity would indicate that there is a great chance that life exists off our planet, however, I have never seen an extra-terrestrial, UFO, nor have I ever been beamed aboard an alien spacecraft. As my astro-education continues, I believe sentient life is the exception rather than the rule in the Universe. Firm evidence of intelligient life would surely turn our planet's multiple cultures, religions, and political systems for a loop. I think due to the voluminous RF signature our technilogical society produces, we most likely have an unplanned beacon already with all the good and bad of our species.I run SETI@home for the one chance that it may not be the "one stone left unturned". I don't have all the answers, but I sure do have a great number of questions!
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