| Personal background |
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My name is Sarah - all things come together and fly apart.
I am a serious space geek.
As a young schoolgirl I was taken on a fieldtrip to Huntsville, AL and treated to a tour of the Columbia before it had ever left the planet. At the time they were still struggling to figure out how to keep the tiles glued onto the nose of the shuttle. Later that same day, some guy in his late teens who emptied the trash bins, convinced me to give him five dollars so I could "own 20 acres on the moon". He gave me a poorly rendered certificate of my property that was somewhere near MARE NECTARIS. I assume that is how he probably paid for his first car - duping nerdy kids at the space center in Alabama.
Regardless of his intent, I was pretty much doomed after that to a life of squinting through telescopes and blowing perfectly good Saturday nights at the planetarium.
Currently when I am not staring at my screensaver watching for Gaussian peaks, or perusing my local Salvation Army for SKYlab mugs, I am online at the NASA VLF receiver listening to the universe whisper sweet nothings to me.
On an unrelated note I used to be in the Roller Derby. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I have been watching the SETI@home project unfold from the very beginning. I requested to be part of the original beta testing group.
When it comes to the possibility of extraterrestrial life, I like to quote my grandmother who said, "If I thought that in all of the vast universe human beings were the ultimate intelligence - I would throw myself off the Grand Canyon"
I do absolutely think there is life out there, and I worry we may not even recognize it as life when we see it, simply because it will be so far out of range of our experience. I think a manned trip to Europa may open everybody's eyes a little wider. |
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