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Hi folks!
My name is Thomas K. Lane. I'm a fifty-one year old father of four fantastic children, a retired letter carrier and an avid amateur radio operator.
Currently I am enrolled in a local university studying to become a registered nurse. After twenty-five years of working in government service I now have an opportunity to do something that is a real service to people. I am very excited about entering nursing as a "second career". (Yes folks...there is life AFTER the age of fifty!) :)
I have been very interested in astronomy and the night sky ever since I spent part of youth serving in the U.S. Navy in Vietnam. I spent many an hour looking into the night sky (far away from the lights of ANY city) and, for the first time in my life, I was in awe of everything I beheld! Stars by the millions became a nightly vista and, to a lonely eighteen year old sailor, they quickly became friends who would help me find peace and sanity in a very violent and deadly environment. A whole new world of wonder was opened to me...a world where I realized and truly came to believe for the first time in my life that we cannot really be alone in this universe.
OK...sounds dumb but its true. This "seti@home project is a project that fascinates me with all of the possibilities it has to offer. Just imagine...any one of us might bethe lucky one to help our species open up the door to a whole new universe. The universe where other "intelligence" might just be staring up into their own night sky wondering just where we might be ?
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I truly don't know whether or not extraterrestrial life exists or not.
Logically I think that it must. Given all of the stars in the night sky, all of the galaxies outside of our own and all of the planets that must exist in any of these myriad of realms...I know that the possibility of extraterristrial life is almost a certainty. Finding it is a bit like searching for the proverbial needle in zillion proverbial haystacks, however.
The search is important, however. How can any thinking person be content not to try? We are a species never intended to be content sitting in the dark. We are a species always wanting to look beyond that which we can see...to look far beyond our known shores. By nature, we are a people born to explore and to learn. That is why the seti project is so important.
I run Seti@home because it is the least of what I can do to help in this search for extraterrestrial life. I am a retired mailman. I am not a scientist by any stretch of the imagination. But...I am a seeker. I want to help.
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