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| Personal background |
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I am a native New Yorker, born in Manhattan, raised in The Bronx, and now living in White Plains, NY and Newbury, Vermont. Four young boys call me Grampa and have noted that Santa Clause looks a lot like me. I have a BS in Chemistry (it only took 6 years of full time "study") and actually worked in that field for almost 2 years as the quality control chemist in a pizza plant (kosher pizzas sometimes).
My life with computers started badly. A pair of IBM 701's tried to kill me while they were being tied down for shipment on a DC-6 (with real propellers) at Idlewild Airport (now JFK). For reasons unknown, the processors (in those days, IBM did not make "computers", just "data processing systems") started to topple onto me but fortunately they fell at the same time and locked together about a foot over my prone body. My professional computer programming/systems career started with the USAF in the late 50's. After a brief break to finally finish my BS, I entered the computer systems world and am still at it, mostly in the publishing field now.
I finally decided to dare education again and received my MS in Computer Science in '95. In my post-career career as a computer consultant (AKA insurance policy), I now spend most of my on-site working time at a major newspaper in NYC.
As a pilot and presently inactive flight instructor, I'm attempting to become involved in the ultralight and upcoming sport pilot worlds. Other hobbies are just about anything that catches my rather flighty attention.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. Does E.T. life exist? Certainly! Intelligent?...... We have trouble determining that about other species on this planet ("other" is presumptive).
Whether E.T. finds us or we find them, probably by accident after lots of hard digging, my concern is whether we can deal with an alien culture better that with our own subcultures.
2. We are already sending a "beacon" but a designed one might be better, particularly if it demonstrates some level of intelligence.
3. For some time I'd been thinking about "donating" my unused computer capacity and when I came across SETI, bingo. For the project folks, it's a thankless job, but thanks.
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