Profile: Sharon Lee Taylor

Personal background
PahRahdise Ranch, our home, is in the PahRah Mountains that form
the SW boundary of Pyramid Lake, some 34 miles NE of Reno, Nevada, USA.
I will turn 56 the end of August, 2002. I live with my husband Greg, my Mom
Laura, 86, who has Alzheimer's Disease, and our seven cats: Missy, Pepper,
Tye, Patches, Lil Tuff, Misty and Boots. Our 137 acres lie in what is known
as the Juniper Savannah biome. Our critter neighbors include: mule deer,
antelope, bobcat, mountain lion, wild horse, badger, cottontail, jack rabbit,
ground squirrel, chipmunk, golden eagle, raven, pinyon jay, scads of sparrows
and finches, juncos, and hummingbirds!

I have an M.A. in Anthropology/Archaeology from Cal State University,
Sacramento. Much of my professional career was spent as a museum Director.

In my next lifetime I am coming back as an engineer so that I can live and
work in space. I love SciFi: Jack Chalker, Orson Scott Card, Greg Bear, Issac
Asmimov et al.

I maintain our website: http://www.pahrahdiseonline.com and enjoy my computer
for both recreation (Pharoah, Myst Exile...etc) and business: editing
manuscripts, working on my book, and research.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
SETI@home has been my connection to the progress of mankind, and I feel that I
am making a meaningful contribution to this progress. It is exciting to read
about all of the people that have made this amazing project the success that it
has become!

I have been a member of SETI@home for over three years. My old 300 mhz
Pentium II takes forever to process a block of data. I am upgrading my CPU
to a 2.1 ghz Athlon chip and expect my participation will increase when this
happens.

I have an abiding belief that we are not alone. The Drake Equation explains it
most elegantly...and Issac Asimov wrote a small book that confirmed to me the
belief I had was not based on mere wishful thinking. The ability of the
Internet to link me to NASA, the Hubble, and various space missions has been
the most wonderful gift I have ever received.

There are risks in anything we do. If we don't go back to the Moon, and if we
don't go to Mars, we risk being trapped here forever. Perhaps we are in a form
of quarantine until we "grow up"...but every time we reach out to space, we
come closer to becoming a member of something greater than what we are now: a
true member of the sentient species of the universe!



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