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Julio Kennedy Rosenblatt?
How did you get a name like that???
So glad you asked. My parents are both Chilean, and they are also both Jewish. Thus the Hispanic first name and Jewish last name. I was born in Santiago, Chile, and so were both of my parents. There really are Jews in South America! China too!!!
My mom named me Julio after her father, who was originally from Eastern Europe and used Julio as the Hispanic version of his Jewish name (phonetically something like yee-hee-el). My dad hated the tradition of naming children after dead relatives, so he named me after his real live hero, John F. Kennedy - that was on September 3, 1963, just a couple of months before that fateful day at a grassy knoll in Dallas...
Rosenblatt is actually a German name, but as you know many Jews have such last names. Rosenblatt means rose petal. Awwwww...
So now you know where I got my funky name from. It's actually not that strange. And it had absolutely nothing to do with Julio Iglesias or a Paul Simon song!
RoboDoc
Besides having an unusual name, I have an unusual profession. I'm a RoboDoc. I got my PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon and now operate on all sorts of mobile robots. Maybe one day we'll send a team of robots as our emissaries to another world!
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Are we alone?
I think the probability that life exists only on this one planet in the entire universe is infinitesimally small. Of course, unless we evolved from the same protozoa with similar genetic information, the likelihood is that the life forms on other planets are completely beyond our imagination - we might not even recognise them as being life forms at all. Who knows, maybe there are other types of "living" things right here on Terra that we don't even know about! And don't even get me started on the whole notion of "intelligence"...
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