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Hello;
I am a Texan transplanted to New Jersey since I graduated in 1966 with a BSEE from UT-Austin. Except for a three year project assignment at Kwajalein, M.I., I have worked in the same radar plant the whole time. Being part of the defense electronics industry has, however, resulted in several corporate changes.
(The corporations have changed more often than my phone number.)
For my first twenty years, the radar plant was owned by RCA which was bought by GE. A few years later, the defense electronics sector of GE was sold to rocket and missile manufacturer Martin Marietta and then in a couple of years we merged with Lockheed, when Lockheed Martin was formed. Stay tuned...
My EE career has gone through phases from gate-level logic design and discrete analog design, through numerous cycles of system integration debug and acceptance testing; into crafting equipment subsystem performance requirements and verification tests (including several environmen, shock, and vibration qualification tests); and, along the way, ever more into debug test of software subsystems.
For ten years I have also been an officer of our engineering employee representation association; which is also known as a labor union for, and by, professional scientists and engineers at my company.
At home, I keep busy with the computers, tinkering with my electronics lab test equipment, and reading. I run an amateur home weather station which is networked at:
http://home.comcast.net/~mayswl/
http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KNJCINNA1
http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/wxpage.cgi?call=CW2671&last=48&radar=***
Windows XP is not really suited to running a 24/7 realtime data system, is it?
As a homeowner, my other hobbies are plumbing, electrical, and yard work; but I never really planned on those.
Bill Mays
10/2005 |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Why? - Why not? It is a good cause.
I believe there is a far better chance that SETI@home will identify new astrophysical processes or objects than that ET-aliens will be identified.
I imagine there is a greater density of unknown physics than of unknown beings.
But; the search should go on even though the gutless bureaucrats cut the funding rather than explain anything to the science-ignorant poorly educated public and take a chance on being laughed at.
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