Profile: Sinterbear

Personal background
I discovered the stars in high school, as well as science fiction. I don\\'t get to see them much, living within sight of the United States Capitol, and I read far less sf now than I did 40 years ago. Participating in SETI provides some compensation.

It\\'s ironic that someone with zero interest in politics should be living and working in the political capitol of the world. On the other hand, there are very few Federal agencies as politically neutral as the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, which I find a very natural fit for me. I\\'m not an examiner, and for most of my career I was in information dissemination. Now my work focuses on standards.

Standards, especially information standards, document the manner in which we constrain our behavior in order to fully exploit the benefits of computer technology.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
Some say that we should put at least as much effort into finding intelligent life on Earth as we put into SETI. I spend about four hours a day on that effort, while my computer does the work for SETI. Only time will tell which of us is more successful, but I\\'m pretty sure that I\\'m more efficient. :-)

Considering that the structure of our bodies and nervous systems is a consequence in part of the local arrangement of planetary bodies, stars, and other astronomical influences, I wonder if it\\'s possible to predict the biological structure of an ET based on the configuration of its solar system?
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