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In the fourth grade a teacher made me put down a book on nuclear reactors and asked me pay attention to an art lession. Unfortunately, the art lession was really bad. The art got better over the years, but thirty six years later, I still run into the same problem.
I am now a family law attorney in a small town in central Washington State. (I really do not know why - it just happened to me - the attorney bit, that is.) Although most people think of Washington as Seattle, a land of rain and trees, we have a large bit of a desert here in the rain shadow of the Cascade mountains. The clearer skies have let me become something of an amature astronomer, someone who likes to stand in the dark, look out into the universe, and think about it a bit.
I enjoy friends, computers, science fiction, fantasy, science, and the news. I have struggled with Bonsai for years, but have had only small success with it. Photography and trying to find the best sushi in town take up a bit of the days. Family, cats, dogs, horses, house and yard work, and sleeping, fill up most of the rest of the time not consumed by my practice.
I am all to frequently reminded of how little I truly know. Like any good generalist, I keep learning less and less about more and more until I seem to know nothing about everything. I have learned, though, that the universe in which we live is not just odder than we can think, it is truly, totally weird. If we are going to find out who is here with us, we must stop looking and instead just see.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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It is almost certain that there are other civilizations in the universe. It is quite likely that some of them share this galaxy with us. The odds that one such world lies within the volume of space we are searching with SETI@Home is more than great enough to justify our effort.
It is thrilling to live in this time, a time where this project is possible. I sincerely hope that we will all share in the thrill of discovering what we seek - a voice in the night, calling out for another. |
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