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| Personal background |
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I have been interested in Astronomy since I was in the first grade (1961, if you must know. I was born in 1956 I am currently 45) I got my first telescope in the fourth grade and started Astrophotography in high school. I was lucky to have access to a 20†telescope in Louisville KY which was manufactured during World War II by Dr. Moore from University of Louisville. Of course I had my own smaller (100 mm reflector) that I used at home.
I went away to college and I put the telescope up. I had a few courses at the University of Kentucky in Astronomy, but did not have enough time for those courses and the courses for my Bachelors in Physics, which I got in the dark ages of 1978. I went on and get my Master of Science in Physics in 1980. Then I got hired by a contactor for NASA Langley. I worked there until 1992, when my employer lost the contract.
I was offered then a position of a lifetime, on the software development of a project called the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) with the Goddard Space Flight Center. I worked on the project from 1992 until the summer of 1994 working on the Celestial Calibration software. It was a fun, nice group to work with, but as with all Astronomical satellite projects, there was writing on the wall that the money was running out.
I then decided to move on to the Total Ozone Measuring Spectrometer (TOMS), which was one satellite project, that actual saw the Antarctic Ozone Hole before it was announced. I left TOMS for the private sector in 1997 to look for something called MONEY.
I then came back to work on the software for another weather satellite in 1999, and that is currently where I am staying.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I think that there is extraterrestrial life. If we think that we are the only life form in the universe, then we are naive. I think that it has the possibility of advancing man’s knowledge of the Universe and that stellar distances are great enough that there is little danger for mankind. (unless we get a message on how to develop a super bomb and blow ourselves up with it)
I run Seti@home because that I think that there is scientific potential in the project. And on top of that, it demonstrates a very unique way on developing a massively parallel computer by the cooperation of millions of people, something that cannot be done by a single group. |
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