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| Personal background |
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I used to be a Boeing 727 pilot for the world's fourth largest airline. Unfortunately, I lost my job after 9-11. Currently I am teaching for the Aviation program at Minnesota State University. I am 31 years old and live outside of Minneapolis.
My big hobby involves roller coasters. I have traveled all over in search of theme parks. I have been on 308 different coasters thanks to visiting dozens and dozens of amusement parks.
In 1999, I put a couple of vacation pictures on a personal web page. When I started, the website was mostly pictures of me and my pet bird. But once I figured out that more people want to see pictures of roller coasters than pictures of me, I decided to make a website devoted to amusement parks.
In 2000, I started CoasterGallery.com. This website has quickly grown into a popular source of roller coaster pictures and information. Currently CoasterGallery.com gets about four million hits a month. (Please be sure to visit www.CoasterGallery.com and check it out!)
My other hobbies include: Singing, playing handbells, helping developers create accurate spacecraft recreations for the "Orbiter" spaceflight simulator, and watching the Simpsons or Mystery Science Theater 3000. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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SETI@Home is a wonderful project. I am proud to say that I was a member in the first week they came out of Beta Testing. I remember when there were just 400 years of CPU time TOTAL! I am happy that so many people have joined. Even if no extraterrestrial signals are found, the people at Berkeley have showed that a massive amount of computer time can be spread all over the world. I can't wait until I get a newer computer so I can burn through SETI units faster!
One of my favorite books is "Contact" by Carl Sagan. (If you saw the movie, you have only seen part of the story. Get the book!) Like one of the characters said, if we are alone in the galaxy, it is a big waste of space.
A few years ago the Hubble Telescope pointed for days at what it thought was a dark area of the sky. It shocked the world when it found HUNDREDS of galaxies. As Drake said, if just a fraction of the number of stars have planets, and a fraction of them have life, the universe must be teeming with life. And if nothing is found, it should teach us about the preciousness of life! |
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