Profile: Rollie Hatfield

Personal background
I live and go to school in Morehead Ky. I am getting a degree in astro physics and radio astronomy. My main hobby is learning about a NASA satalite tracking system that is being relocated here at the MSU campus. The instrument will also be used as a radio telescope and for SETI research. It's coming from NASA's Wallops Island Flight Facility in VA. The instrument is nine stories tall and boasts a sixty foot dish. I also enjoy learning about primitive technologies like napping flint and braiding rope. I am 28 years young.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
That life on this planet exists I beleive proves that there IS life elsewhere. I think the ice of Europa may be hiding something as far as life, but as to if it is intellegent or not, who knows. Prehaps intellgent life does'nt wish to be found by us yet. If an alien race did come to call on Earth, they could be thousands or even millions of years more advanced than we are. The benefits are countless if a positive contact is made. In the event that they were not friendly it would spell certian doom for our species. Lets hope they are friendly. Im not sure about the becon idea. It sounds good but how do we know who we are inviting to dinner, and if they will play nice or..... I run SETI at home because we all have a responsibility to do our part to further ourselves as a species, and I also beleive in the project. My suggestion to SETI would be, take private donations and all the money you can get from anywhere you can get it and build a radio telescope on the other side of the moon where we can get REALLY GOOD DATA so we can start doing what should have been done fifteen years ago.
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