Profile: Thomas R. O'Nan

Personal background
I was born in 1956, Indianapolis, Indiana. I spent most of my adult life in school for one thing or another and I've worked as a Radiographer for 35 years, now retired/disabled. But because that profession wasn't mentally challenging enough to me, I stayed in school to keep my brain from turning to tapioca. The result of which was 15 degrees in various avenues of study. Currently I am an amateur radio operator and musician for fun, and have been involved in scouting since I was 8 years old. I work with a ton of computers at home (left over from prior research projects), and have them all running SETI. I pulled them together in a group called the Pegasus Society in honor of my college friends who formed a think tank of that name many years ago. These friends are gone now having all been killed by a drunk driver.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
It would be the ultimate in human egos to assume that we are alone in the universe. As an amateur radio operator I seek out others scanning the bands all the time, this is just another way of scanning the bands for signals. I look at is as the penultimate DX station of all time!
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