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I was born in October, 1971, in San Francisco, California. Since then, I've lived in many places across the US, including West Virginia, Arkansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska and Virginia, not to mention Oregon, where I live today.
I enjoy doing artwork of just about any kind I can think of, but mostly what I wind up doing is computer graphics. I love to ride my bike along the river on a nice sunny day, I love going to Mom's house and laying in her hammock under the plum trees, I love reading good books, watching good movies, and cooking and eating good food. I didn't vote for Bush, and I think what he's doing to this country and other countries (in the name of freedom, democracy and patriotism) is appaling, to say the least. But enough politics.
I've had many jobs, including Convenience store clerk, Master Control Operator at the local NBC affiliate, freelance graphic designer... Currently I'm a telephone survey person-thingy. I call people up, usually while they're eating dinner or getting ready to go out and bother them with survey questions. Sometimes people are very nice about it, doing the survey with me, and I appreciate that. Sometimes people are very nice about it, but don't want to do the survey with me. I appreciate that too. Often, though, people seem to think I'm deliberately bothering them at the worst possible time, or that I'm trying to sell them something, or worse. These people often yell, curse and scream at me. I don't appreciate that. I'm just doing my job, folks. If you don't want us to call you, say "Take me off your list," and we will. We have to, it's the law.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I'm not terribly educated in astronomy, nor would I even say it's a hobby of mine. But I can't help but be interested. Like so many of us, I realize that in something as vast and diverse as our universe is, the odds of our planet being the only one to sustain intelligent life are pretty slim, even when you figure in the slim odds of intelligent life actually developing. With that in mind, I think we HAVE to search, to see what's out there, which is why SETI is so important.
Here in Eugene, Oregon, we have a 1:1,000,000,000 scale model solar system laid out along the Willamette River bike path. It really gives you a good sense of just how vast space really is. If you start out at the Sun, which in our model is about 1.4 meters in diameter, and walk to the Earth, it will take a several minutes, the earth being about 150 meters away, not so far, really. But to walk to Pluto... Get your walking shoes on, you're walking 5.9 kilometers, or about 3.66 miles.
I grasped the scale even moreso when I was trying to make a scale accurate diagram of our solar system. I wanted to make the planets all to scale with their orbits on the paper. Seemed simple enough. Except that the sun itself only appears as a small dot on my diagram, almost too small to see. Jupiter, our largest planet, doesn't even show up at that scale. Phew, that's big.
And that's just our solar system, which, in the grand size of things, is insignificant compared to the universe itself.
In all that space, with all those suns... There has to be life elsewhere. And I hope it's intelligent. Of course, I have a pretty good idea what the odds of us looking in just the right place at just the right time are... But if we don't look, we've wasted an opportunity to possibly find something. And that would be a shame. |
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