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| Personal background |
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I was born into an Air Force family in 1964. After graduating from high school with a major in electronics, I joined the Air Force in 1982 in the telecommunications field. Being a long time fan of Carl Sagan and his Cosmos TV series, I thought of retiring from the service and becoming an astronomer. However, when I got an early retirement in 1998, I decided that I had worked enough nights and wanted a day job. I’ve been a systems analyst since and have enjoyed it greatly. I’d love to get a job in the space area where my talents could be used to help our foothold in space, but I haven’t found that job yet.
I have enough hobbies to keep me busy for the rest of my life, should I ever win the lottery. I fly radio controlled airplanes, write science fiction stories for children and young adults, create 3D illustration and graphics, play paintball, target shoot, ride my motorcycle, build programs and databases on my computer, maintain my home network of computers, and of course, run SETI@home.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I definitely think life exists elsewhere in the universe. If there isn’t, we’ve sure wasted a lot of parsecs on just a nice view.
When will we find “The Signal?†I guess it will come when it comes. I would be impossible to do more than make a blind guess at a date. Well, Ok, How about 10:23am on March 26, 2056? They will call in to Larry King Live and say they will be landing at Roswell, NM. However, they’ll actually land on the White House lawn while everyone is in Roswell. Good enough? Hehehe
When we ever come face to face with aliens, things will go one of two ways. They will be nice and we get along or they are not so nice and they kick our planetary butt. The number one rule we must remember when that first contact moment comes is “DO NOT DISECT THE GUESTS!!!†If I was an alien visiting here, I think I would have learned well enough that the chances of me being welcomed with open arms by the people of Earth would be slim to none. They’d want to know all the secrets of my technology so they could use it against each other. Then they’d stick me in a room and study me until I died or they decided not to wait and they carved me up to check out my organs. I think I would stay in orbit and have them fly a shuttle to my ship for a visit. That way I would have a better chance of not becoming the poster bug for “Test Tube Weekly.â€
We’ve already been sending a beacon since 1939 so I think that asking if we should send a signal or not is a few decades late.
My computers run 24/7 anyway so I figured that SETI@Home would be the best way I could support the space program at the current time. Besides, if I am the one that discovers “The Signal,†I want to be like Roy Neary in “Close Encounters of the Third Kind†and be in on the discussions with the aliens. Of course, if the aliens are like those on “Mars Attacks†or ‘Starship Troopers,†then I deny and disavow all knowledge of SETI or the space program. Hehehe Just kidding. 8-)
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