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| Personal background |
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I am a software engineer. I learned my first language, Dartmouth Basic in 1968, my high school rented time from Rutgers. ASR 33 teletypes and paper tape, those were the days. I later learned languages for DEC PDP 11's and IBM 360/370 etc.. I started programming professionally in 1974 for Prudential.
When the IBM XT was released I learned C, using the Microsoft/Lattice C compiler. Debugging could not have been more difficult. Many well known, defunct, large companies later, brings me to Midcore Software, a company of 12.
Most of my time freetime, is spent with my kids. Primarily dealing with soccer, and their own learning of computers, and scouts. My daugther who is 12 can compose HTML by hand, better than I can. She is knowledgable in Visual Basic and Java as well. My son who is 9, is just getting interested in the programming aspect of computers.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Do I think extraterrestrial life exists? Absolutely. Do I think intelligent ET life exists, probably. Does it mean that we will see a signal from them? If we are lucky. They could be using completely different technology for communication then we do. They could be further behind in development then we are. They may have been here in the past and thought we were far too primitive for there interests.
Yes, I was raised on Star Trek, the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo projects. But having recently read about the Fermi paradox, I doubt we wil be going anywhere out of the solar system soon. The price tag for energy alone would be about $40 billion per person on a ship capable of carring 120 people, the size of the Mayflower expedition, to the nearest star. That is after all the R&D to build ship.
I run Seti@home because I want to be part of the project to discover ET life. I would love it if the discovery was to happen in my life time. |
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