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I was born and raised in a little town in South Carolina called Stateburg, which lost by one vote to Columbia in becoming the capitol of the state. I grew up on a farm and read constantly from the time I learned how, since I was an only child and no one my age near me to play with when I was growing up. I always had an interest in learning about things, everything, it did not matter what, I just had to learn always.
I am now 53 years of age and still know there is still a lot to learn. My mind likes to keep active always. I work for the City of Las Vegas (Nevada) in the Human Resources Department. I am a Personnel Analyst and screen prospective employees for jobs, test them, and also test our employees for promotional positions as well. I work with computers, helped set up our current Oracle HRMS system, at least the insurance set up, previously I ran the insurance programs for the City, all except making the major decisions, of course. Now I am well versed in the SIGMA applicant management system we use, I am the assistant administrator, and will be learning the new version currently coming out in a couple of weeks which will interface with the Windows programs, it currently runs as a DOS based program. I may not be a computer programmer, but I have learned my way around the programs we have used rather well.
I enjoy doing needlework, cross-stitch, needlepoint, and crewel embroidery, knitting, and crocheting. I also enjoy horses. I used to ride, but it has been a few years since I have done that, I have arthritis in my hands right now and had carpal tunnel problems which left me with some diminished strength so I am not sure I could control a horse anymore. Now I enjoy from the sidelines watching my friends in horse shows.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I have always believed we cannot be alone in this universe. Years ago I attended a lecture by Dr. Carl Sagan at UNLV and found his talk fascinating. As I said before I have always been an inveterate reader. I enjoy science fiction and believe that a number of those authors are very much ahead of their time. I can see the possibilities they speak about coming to fruition. I could not possibly have not joined the SETI@home project when it was presented to the public. What a thrill it would be to find something to help the project along with its search. As long as my computer is working right, we will be crunching data for the project.
Finding other groups of intelligent beings living in the universe could be a double edged sword it is true. Will they be peaceful and willing to share technology with us that could advance our culture? Or will they look upon us as so far beneath them technologically that we can be easily conquered and used as slave labor? We can only look back at our own history to see the effects of the latter view with the European views of the American Indian population, the Mexican and South American Indian populations, and then the African natives when that continent was settled. And even the other nations on the African continent contributed to that problem. Will that happen again if extraterrestrial beings come in to take over? It could.
And yet, the being that come could also be benevolent and peaceful. They could be willing to extend a helping hand to a younger race to help us up the evolutionary ladder, or just take a hands off approach and let us develop at our own pace. It is really hard to know. But we have to try to find out. We owe it to ourselves to find out if there is someone else out there. We cannot live in a bubble. |
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