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I am a forty two year old IT Technician living in Naples, Florida in the USA. I am an avid electronics hobbiest. I have been fascinated with space and technology since I was about five years old. At five, I read a childrens book entitled "Someday You Will Go To The Moon." This had a major influence on me. Also in those days there was a brand of potato chips, Terrels I think, that gave away free NASA Lunar Lander buttons with every bag. These were anodized aluminum coinlike gems with photos of the lunar lander sitting on the moon and various other scenes from the Apollo missions. These were my greatest treasures as a child. Unfortunately I somehow managed to lose them all over the years. If anyone knows what I am talking about and can even send me a picture of these things I would be most grateful. I can remember my Father letting me stay up late to watch the original Star Trek while my Mom was at school. The space travel at warp speed, phasers, photon torpedoes, transporters, the pure adventure, and of course Mr. Spock, all made space travel seem very real. But the shadows of the window blinds from Mom's headlights moving along the wall of the living room, meant that Mom was pulling in the driveway, and that was my queue to scramble quickly to bed and pretend I was asleep. I never had a clue that she knew all along!
I now have the DVD Collection of COSMOS, Carl Sagans great NOVA series about Space. I highly recommend it! In one of the episodes I believe I spotted my 8th grade algebra teacher Mr. Brown at what looks like Robert Treeman Park. Could it be? COSMOS was a great series and Carl Sagan was a very great man. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| I believe we must do everything we can as a people and a planet to try to detect and decipher the possible communications of beings from other planets, wherever they may be in space and time. The current implied limitations in the world of physics seem to rule out ever having coffee with aliens, but as intellectuals we must continue to conduct an effective search for otherworld communications. One thing we have demonstrated to ourselves as Earth Beings is that many of our thoughts and beliefs about the world around us are subject to change whenever new information is acquired. Observation is the most significant element of discovery, without it, we would know nothing. I applaud those at SETI for their hard work and resourcefullness and I am proud to be a part of the program. I currently have SETI running on many PC's. I was pleased to see that I have recently broken into the top 1 percent of work units completed. I am always shooting for ever more. Come on ET! Give us a call! |
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