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| Personal background |
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| I live in Greenville, South Carolina with my wife, Betsy and two children, Will and Kensey. I am a professional geologist and amateur astronomer. By day my head is buried in the rich mica clays of the Piedmont, and at night I look at the heavens. My other hobbies include train-watching, working on Volkswagens and an occasional game of basketball. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I think the SETI@home is an interesting project as a part of the development process of the human race, in terms of our technological capabilities. Given the scale of the universe, we may process all of the radio noise in the entire Milky Way galaxy and never find anything. I think extraterrestrial life has already established itself on our planet. They may be the viruses which infect us on a regular basis and may have been deposited here as meteorites crash on the earth's surface or in the oceans. Or not.
I run SETI@home in hopes that I will become eternally famous for discovering the signals of intelligent life. My already eternally famous father, Earl Lauber, was mission controller for the first commercial satellite launched into orbit around the earth. That little ball called Telstar started an awesome wave of commercial exploitation of space. You probably didn't know that your favorite 70's phone company launched over 150 rockets carrying commercial satellites into Earth orbit over a 15 year period, now didn't you. |
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