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My bills get paid by being employmed as a lab technicianin a captive lab. The company I work for has a number of military/aerospace accounts that typically require very stringent adherence to specifications regarding coating thicknesses, weight, corrosion-resistance, stress tolerance, etc. My role in all this is to perform both quantitative and qualitative analyses of various (hazardous) chemicals to be sure they meet their own set of specs. My part-time job (the fun one) is adjunct instructor, and what I instruct is a course on biological evidence for a local college's Crime Scene program. While the pay isn't anything to call home about, I find the interactions with the students extremely rewarding and, in the end, more valuable than a bigger paycheck would be.
Interests include indy/cult films and documentaries, entheo/ethnobotany, bass guitar, plains-culture artifact/clothing reproduction, reading, camping, fishing, snorkeling, and grilling DelMonico steaks a few times each month. Random statements: I find myself getting more conservative (politically)as I get older. I think it's a sign of trouble for a person to have more than three cats at a time. I wish there were some way to require a "parenting license" without causing an uproar. Cristopher Walken makes dancing look fun. I don't quite "get" Spongebob Squarepants, but whatever. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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"Have they called you yet?" This is what a particular friend of mine asks whenever he stops by and sees the screensaver running. If "they" did get around to calling, I'd be anxious to find out what they thought of us, especially given all of our radio/TV broadcasts leaking out. Just think of all the ways in which we've depicted aliens and first contacts with them over the decades. There's the Twilight Zone's "To Serve Mankind", "War of The Worlds","The Day The Earth Stood Still", "E.T.", "ALF" and "Contact" to name very few, and it's interesting to wonder about the possibility of sentient extraterrestrials thinking that these things were depictions of actual events. Maybe they'd think we were a degenerate species and cordon off this section of the galaxy as contaminated.
I think there's definitely exobiology of some form, somewhere, even if it's only very simple microbes or algae. There's a lot of space out there, and we know from observing our own environment that life crops up in unlikely places. We might not contact a sentient species, but to send a beacon out despite the unlikelyhood that'll be recieved (or responded-to)says a lot about our own collective nature. |
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