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I'm from Minnesota and I'm 40+, working for the US Government managing communications and data transport systems overseas. I'm an avid mountain climber, softball player, and father of two little guys, 4 and 6 years old.
I've just become the owner of a 7 month old Border Collie who's previous owner had a heart attack, has survived, but likely will never be able to walk again. A sad story all around, but "Lucky" is well loved and I'd like to think he'll do well.
I also have a 9 month old cat named Midnight who at the moment hates my guts (see paragraph above for details). I got her when she got her head stuck in a rat trap outside my youngest's child care center as an about 9 week old feral kitten. When I finally broke the trap she was in, she bit me about six times. Since my choices were a. let her go and hope I didn't die from rabies or distemper b. turn her into a vet, who'd kill her to see if she has rabies or distemper or c. keep her locked up at my house and watch her for signs of getting ill, I went with c. and not only was she healthy as a horse, but the family fell in love with her too. She doesn't bite anymore, but as I pointed out earlier, I'm no longer her favorite buddy, due one border collie. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I run SETI because I hope there are others out there. I don't see our world making it if there aren't. We either need a common enemy, if the "Others" are unfriendly, or maybe we can learn to live together if someone else shows us the way. I think it takes a rare and extremely uncommon courage to be part of the SETI program. Not the part I'm in - lending some CPU cycles to analyize data, but to actively focus radio telescopes on the heavens and lobby for funds.
Mankind's entire existance is just one lucky day after another, and I firmly believe we need a break. As an enthusiastic SciFi reader, I've read all the different scenario's; Armada with it's nasty, we came because we were hungry aliens; Foundation where we are totally alone; Gentle Giants of Ganymede where mankind was created by an accident; Protector where the galaxies cores explosion drove others out to migrate and the protectors died out, allowing us to mutate into todays mankind.
In Armada, the SETI folks suffered a bit when the aleins we called to us were found to be murders. Does it matter? I also think not. Maybe we'll see. Just one more section of sky......... |
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