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I was born and raised in Massachusetts. I lived for six years in Santa Cruz, California in the early to late 1990s while I was working for Borland International. I currently reside in Waterville, Maine with my wife Ellen, our black Labrador Retriever, Maggie and our three cats: Mina, Pumpkin and Bean. I'm 38 years old, of Italian (Sicilian 90%), Irish (8%) and English (2%) descent. I enjoy writing software for a living, science fiction, empirical sciences, logic, mathematics, music theory, playing keyboards and synths. I just love funky 70's keyboard instrumentals such as Outa Space by Billy Preston and Machine Gun by The Commodores. I love funk and soul music and Tower of Power, Earth Wind and Fire, and Marvin Gaye are among my favorite artists. I also enjoy Rush, Yes, The Police, Journey, Jazz (everything from out there jazz such as Thelonius Monk or Miles Davis to happy jazz such as Pat Metheny or Spyro Gyra), Fusion, Crossover Jazz... almost every form of music except for hardcore rap and old twangy country music. I also love reading, writing, animals, the ocean, beaches, multiplayer computer role-playing games, and my wife, Ellen. I'm a very spiritual person as well. I prefer Irwin Allen to Gene Roddenberry. I prefer Hanna Barbera to Warner Brothers. I prefer DC to Marvel. Though, I really like it all. I'm 38 years old, but I still feel 19. If I could meet and talk to anyone who ever lived, I would choose Nikola Tesla. Battlestar Galactica had to be my very favorite science fiction television series ever made. When the narrator says, "There are those who believe that life here, began out there...", I get the Holy Ghost goosebumps for lack of a better phrase. ;) I am a true believer that life here indeed began out there. We may indeed have been seeded, maybe by an alien race or maybe not. If not, at least on a microbiological level.
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There is no doubt in my mind that extraterrestrial life exists in this Universe and in an infinite mutitude of others. I believe that other humans as well as other versions of myself may also exist out there.
I believe that we should be cautious in transmitting beacons identifying both our existence and location. I'm not saying that we should absolutely not do so. I'm merely saying that we should be careful as we cannot know exactly who will intercept the beacon of knowledge that we send and what their intentions might be. We should take an example from our own exploration of the new world and the effect that it had on the natives of the Americas centuries ago. We should be prepared for anything that we may encounter. It is better to go to them first, I say. If we do send a message, I say we put together an endless CD recording of the best funk on this planet: James Brown, etc, and send it off their way. ;)
I run Seti at home because I feel honoured to have the ability to be involved in one of the most important endeavors of the twenty first century. I believe that it is very important in the evolution of mankind to conquer the last and final frontier. Just as we did with the exploration of Earth's oceans centuries ago, we will someday set a course into the vast unknown of our Universe to explore and map it and make contact with its other denizens. There is no doubt that we will encounter many different cultures out there and hopefully when we do, we will be prepared to deal with them as we have to. My ultimate hope is that we will be able to live both in peace with ourselves and in peace with them when we do meet them.
We should be prepared to meet anything in the infinite vastness of "out there". I wouldn't be suprised if we really did at some point run into the Ranger III and find a Captain William "Buck" Rogers frozen at the helm. ;) I believe that the infinite Universe is at the very essence of what we call the human imagination.
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