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Hello! I'm from Iowa...I only work in space...well, sort of. My feet are planted firmly on Mother Earth, but my thoughts are always a million light years out among the stars. I am from Small Town, Iowa, USA, and since 1954, I have lived most of my life in this small community. Back in 1973, I ventured out into the world as part of my enlistment with the Air Force, and got some what of an involvement with a part of the space program as a telemetry and electronics technician. My work was rather interesting, got to go a few places (I was just a hop-skip-and-a-jump from the Berkeley campus) and see many things, but most of all, I made some very close and special friends . I was a restless youth in those days, but mild mannered and terribly shy, and not too keen on the ways of the world. The culture shock of all the people, the bright lights-big city, was just a bit too much for me, so I returned home after my service to the place I was born and raised, and where I will probably stay for the rest of the life this universe plans to allow for me.
I have a life long interest in the stars, space travel, electronics and radio. Seti@Home gives me a piece of all of that. Some of my earliest memories are of Sputnik, Echo, Telstar, John Glenn, the moon landings, etc. These events fueled my interest in many things, including space travel, astronomy, cosmology, archeology, ancient civilizations, geology, electronics, radio, computers, and mathematics (Jack-of all-trades, master of none). I am also an avid follower of science fiction…Star Trek, Star Wars, Stargate SG1, Twilight Zone…and books with authors such as C. J, Cherryh, James Blish, Lee Correy (a.k.a. G. Harry Stein), Arthur C. Clark, Anne McCaffrey, Frederick Pohl, Isaac Asimov, Joan Vinge, and countless many others.
I belong to a SETI group called Distant Suns–Seti@Home. It is an international group that shares people’s interest in the Seti@Home project, the planetarium computer program Distant Suns, computers, and such. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| The universe is very vast, and our planet, solar system, and even the galaxy is just a mere spec in what our universe is as a whole. And in all of this entirety, just one planet that has brought forth life???...I do not think so. There have been many discoveries on our Earth of life forms existing in the most improbable places. Who is to say what form E.T will take, carbon based, silicon base, living machines, beings whose ‘blood’ consist of liquid mercury. Will these beings be intelligent, travelers, conquerors, gods…will they consider us mere insects just to swat out of the way? I think we are only scratching the surface of what types of life exist. Do they communicate via radio? Hard to say, but it is a very good place to start. They may communicate via radio, lasers, gravity waves, quantum teleportation, and telepathy or by any other means we have no reckoning of. SETI@ Home is a learning process for humanity; we have to learn to crawl before we walk. As we learn to walk, maybe, too, we will learn not to hate any more and not to destroy our own world. Once we step out to the stars, maybe will earn to live in peace. |
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