| Personal background |
My story begins on a cold Christmas Eve in northwestern Ohio, within a decade of Roswell, New Mexico making sensational news.
A small child walks out on a concrete porch, hoping to see Santa streaking across the sky. After a single glimpse of the sparkling, shimmering night, Santa was forgotten. The wonder and awe of that view inspired a lifetime curiosity of science in general and Astronomy specifically.
As I grew, my curiosity was responsible for joining the Boy Scouts, where I strived to earn every possible merit badge dealing with science. Meteorology and Astronomy were my favorites. Around the age of 11, I saw my first "UFO" (which turned out to be a satellite), and gave me reason to consider the likelihood of life elsewhere in the universe.
After high school, I discovered computers in college. I decided to work for the company that made the computer I learned programming on in school. After a period of study, I moved to Texas, where I went to work for that company to live on the bleeding edge of computer programming. 12 years later I was laid off just before the company was bought out. After a couple years hiatus, I moved to Florida where spent 5 years aiding my parents in the last years of their life. The year 2000 saw my parents' deaths, the death of my best friend, and a cat who owned me for the previous 19 years. It also saw the end of my career in programming, when that company downsized.
In spite of that difficult year, I continue to seek meaningful work (that seems to come and go...), meaning in life, and meaning in a world that seems to sponsor more chaos than it does order. It lends credence to the theory that the universe is, indeed, a holographic one. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
Is there life in the cosmos, beyond our planet? In a word, yes. I believe there is intelligent extraterrestrial life and I believe we have the opportunity of discovering it. Whether this happens will depend largely upon our ability as a global community to be viable over a certain period of time.
I believe we must develop some Faith over our fears, and learn from each other some trust, and a willingness to be open to ideas beyond our experience, beyond our science.
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