Profile: Bluegrass

Personal background
Hi all! I am a returning Classic cruncher. I quit when BOINC first came on-line, which co-incided with my stash of old clunker computers going "Belly up".

I am retired from the University of Hawaii. (means I am over 65). I worked in oceanographic instrumentation, in Geology, Geophysics, volconology and other underwater explorations, mostly monitoring volcanoes and earthquakes underwater.
I am, therefore an electronics type and have experiences in many fields. Radio communications, worked in hydraulics, machine shop, metal shop, welding).

Prior to spending 25+ years plying the oceans of the Pacific and Carriabean, I was in the US Navy submarine service. There I was an Electronics Technician working in Navigation department keeping the inertial navigation system working. 70+ days underwater was quite a hoot.

Now I am going to construct a 10-meter radio telescope and plan to start about the summer of 2007 in northern Illinois. I will have a welding and machine shop set up (as much as I can) while building the antenna. The welding and machine shop (lathe, mill cut off saw, grinders, etc)were shipped with antenna. I will need all of it for quite a while.



That's all for now.

Happy crunching and save those older pentium 2's Set one up in your spare corner.

Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I crunch just to be in touch with other "like" thinkers.

Are there ET's out there? But of course..how facetious of us to think not. If it is good enough for Carl Sagan and Arther Clarke, etc. etc.

As Carl said, Billions and billions and billions.......

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