Profile: Dennis Costea Jr.

Personal background
Originally from northeast Ohio, but raised and educated in southeast Virginia. I credit my elementary and high school science teachers, along with my maternal grandmother, for encouraging my interest in science. I graduated from Princess Anne High School in Virginia Beach, Virginia in 1984, and maintained a full course load (no study halls) for all four years of H.S. because I could not let the time go to waste. My physics teacher, Mr. R.F. Bower, was very encouraging and I hope he is still teaching somewhere today! Post-secondary educational experience includes brief and mostly incomplete sessions at Old Dominion University and Northern Arizon University, along with EXCELLENT technical school in the United States Air Force Reserves! I can't speak highly enough about them. My time studying electronics and avionics (F-16) in the Air Force was the most rewarding period of my entire 35 year life!



Junior high and high school students today should try and find ways to "relate" to their teachers as people. I recall spending most of my time in school avoiding homework and living, quite literally, in fear of many teachers! Because of their power over us as young adults, or how quickly they could get us into trouble for avoiding homework. The environment was NOT conducive to learning, but I made the best of it anyway. If I had it to do over again knowing what I know now, things would be very different.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I believe extraterrestrial life does exist, and there is more of a DANGER from it FINDING US then of us finding it! Most of the world is not prepared to deal with this eventuality. We are to mean to each other.



Hopefully the SETI programs will allow us to learn something about life on other worlds, in order to make an easier transition from thinking we are "it" to being part of the "crowd". My greatest fear is over the worst behaviors of humanity being broadcast out into space, those which do not represnt putting "our best foot forward". Hopefully a switch to lower power digital broadcasting (PCS) and fiber optic technology will reduce the HORRORS being shared with our neighbors. Maybe we should think about building more underground, deep underground, just in case an intergalactic S.W.A.T. team is headed our way?



If we deliberately broadcast additional messages to the stars, I hope they will be detailed descriptions of our knowledge up to a point, and convey a positive image of our accomplishments as a species.



I run SETI@home because it is like playing the lottery. The odds of 'winning' are only zero if you don't play!
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