I'm in my early sixties and living on the South coast of Oregon. I've been an artist/craftsperson most of my life although a traumatic head injury steered me into helping run a recreational/therapeutic horseback riding program for people with disabilities for 10 years. While I've lived in places with names like Manhattan, Paris and Chicago, now I'm enjoying living on a ridge looking down on a little salmon creek that runs into the Pacific ocean a couple of miles away.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
1. My Uncle worked for NASA doing solar research for the space program. We cheered on rockets and astronauts the way other families cheered on a football team. I'm a reader and it was a short hop to science fiction. Space has been capturing my imagination for over 50 years. SETI@home lets me feel that I'm keeping in touch. While my profile states that I'm a new member as of November 2005, it's only that my email address got lost out of the old database. My Macintosh computers over the years have processed more than 150 projects and as of 11/30/2005 this one is running both the classic screensaver and BOINKing.
2. I've always liked the idea that living is casting pebbles into the lake of life and causing ripples that change the shape of the water. SETI@home is one of those pebbles. Wouldn't it be wonderful if someday we find something.
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.
