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I am a professor of Biology at Clark Atlanta University, a Historically Black University in Atlanta, GA. I have a multidisciplinary education, with a bachelor degree in Physics from MIT, a masters degree in Chemistry from University of Texas at El Paso, and a PhD in Biology from Texas A&M University. I guess the next degree would have been psychology, but it became time to get a real job.
For a hobby, i am a licensed amateur radio operator. I bounce 147.585 Mhz FM data packets off of meteor trails during meteor storms, like the Lenoids in November. I have been heard in New York from Georgia. I am sure my neighbors hear the beacon too!
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I have published an Origin of Life hypothesis that is based on Sea Spray. Generation of spray provides a means of concentrating organics from a dilute "primordial soup", and puts them into droplets the same size as bacteria. These droplets remain in the atmosphere for about one week, during which time amino acids would polymerize into proteins due to dehydration. One or several of these dehydrated droplets may have contained the right mixture of enzymes upon return to the sea. I calculated that it would take about 1/2 million years to find a successful protocell.
If this hypothesis is correct, it means that life was created in one weeks time, it just took a million years to find that right week. In this hypothesis, the smaller the planet, the sooner the appearance of successful protocells (given an equal ocean surface area). Therefore life on Mars or Titan could have appeared early if large ocean surface areas were present.
Anyway, with this sea spray hypothesis, or other mechanisms for generating protocells, it sure seems likely that life exists on other planets. Mainly because there are potentially so many other planetary systems.
SETI using radio signals is one way of searching. I have another hypothesis for detecting intelligent life, but i don't have enough space here to describe it. |
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