Profile: BrianM

Personal background
Hello,
I'm not quite sure if I signed up here for local or local and long distance service. Three way calling? Anyway, it looks like call waiting is sort of built into the system....So, what do we do if this stuff turns out to be encrypted? These folks may be choosey about who audits their conversations...

About me
Married 26 years this year (2002), Our oldest is 27y/o-receives his MS in Mgmt in Aug. Our two lovely and talented daughters are 21 and 13 going on 29...
Age: old enough to remember when gas station people used to pump gas
Education: BS Mathematics...I'll be working on an MS in Applied Mathematics soon
Honor graduate of the Advanced Russian language program at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA.
Interests: Languages-natural and computer-I speak Russian and am teaching myself Mandarin Chinese-program in C , recreational mathematics
I'm a runner (since 1967), play tennis
Employed by the US Dept of the AF


Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
It would be nice to have some company...talk about an internet...XT life seems likely...physical laws are probably the same everywhere and complex systems will tend to organize themselves similarly wherever they are spacially or temporarily situated...yes, we should transmit a distress call, oh, no..sorry..a beacon....if this does happen we'll also be the extraterrestrials...the interest that another culture may take in us may depend on their assessment of our ability to contribute some understanding of the natural world or at least to participate intelligently in a conversation; so maybe we should send a kind of quick synopsis of our understanding of physical laws (this would be implicit in the fact that we are sending a message also) and of course basic mathematical axioms and theorems.
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