Profile: LCTingle

Personal background
I'm a 37 year old IT Director and live on the shores of Lake Michigan.

My father inspired me at the age of 10 to look to the heavens. On a chilly fall evening with a tiny telescope, he showed me the vast, ever changing beauty of space.

A few years later, we built a Heathkit H8 computer while listening to his Halicrafters shortwave in the garage.

My father passed away in 1986. Since that time, I've continued the hobbies we shared both for enjoyment and as a tribute to his exciting, ever-expanding knowledge.

I now have my own 10" Celestron and use it whenever weather and time permit. I do CCD imaging and love to hook my Laptop up to the scope. The combination of stargazing and electronics is the best of both worlds. I do this while still listening to my Shortwave, albeit a portable Sony, with no tubes to warm up.

With my background, it was inevitable that I would find myself here. What a better blend for my three loves: Computers, the Heavens, and Radio.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
Are we alone? The almost mystical question that has haunted us forever. How can anyone look at images of space and see the creation of stars and other worlds and think it is all for us? How long has it been since we thought of our Earth as the center of the universe? I think as mankind grows older and wiser, we will come to understand that compared to the vastness of the universe, we are a very tiny speck, in a very tiny speck of time. Are we alone?
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