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| Personal background |
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I am the Director of Operations at Bluffview Montessori School, the second charter school in the US. This position represents a major career change for
me, a 59 year old. I obtained my Masters degree in Educational Leadership in
December of 2000 and went from the world of business to the world of education.
I enjoy computers, Amateur Radio, and bicycling. I have been a "ham" since
1960 and my wife and I ride a tandem bicycle.
In January of 1998 my wife and I visited the Arecibo Observatory to see where
SETI@home collects it's data! It's an awsome place!
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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There is certainly a good chance that life exists elsewhere in the Universe.
Whether it is intelligent or not is the really big question. We might, however,
be the first to rise to this level of technology (somebody has to be first!) I
don't have strong thoughts either way, but I suspect that civilizations can rise
and fall well within the signaling time frame from all but the very closest
stars. That means what we may receive could well be from species and
civilizations that no longer exist (and certainly would be much changed from the
time that their signals were originated.)
Yes, let's transmit. let's let the Universe know we are here. As a species we
have always moved outward. Let's not stop now!
I run SETI@home for two reasons; (1) it's a great experiment in parallel
processing, and (2) we need to KNOW!
Suggestions for SETI@home and other projects: Modify the software to run
as a service under all versions of Windows since Windows 95. Is that possible? That way SETI can run always, even when users are
logged off Windows computers.
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