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Fellow searchers:
I am a computer programmer by trade and digital artist for sport. I currently live in beautiful and intriguing Orlando, Florida. I visit "The Mouse" quite often, and anxiously await the opening of the new
"Mission: Space" adventure at Epcot.
From my backyard, which is about 30 miles from the NASA Kennedy Space Center, I can watch the launch of many space vehicles and exploratory machines. I love visiting the center, often taking the tour of the current and former NASA programs, and witnessing several space shuttle launches. The night launches are incredibly beautiful and
spectacular, making daylight from pitch blackness. During one early morning launch last year, the shuttle left the ground just before sunrise. As the trailing plume moved
from Earth's shadow into light from the hidden sun, the exhaust trail lit up like a giant orange neon tube. This launch installed one module of "Alpha" into
its orbit. Having seen several space station modules at Cape Canaveral, this past March, I was able to see
Alpha and Discovery from STS-102 in the evening sky with my naked eye, two evenings in a row. The greatest part was that Discovery had launched on my birthday, and continued to deliver several surprises during its journey. Be sure to take a virtual NASA tour at http://www.nasa.gov if you cannot visit in person. Better yet, do both!
As you can tell, I am an avid fan of the space program, astronomy, cosmology and of course, SETI@home
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I believe that extraterrestrial life has, does or will exist. I believe that humans of Earth will seed and colonize the Universe. Frankly, we must reach out to another world or risk the fate of a doomsday meteor or an epidemic of horrible proportions. By taking our life to other planets and systems within the Milky Way, we will have build a conservatory for survival. Our species will adapt to space and other ecosystems; we are the most versatile species to inhabit this solar system, as far as we now know this day in mid-August 2001 A.D. But we must be careful not to take our problems to another celestial body, or to bring its problems home to Mother Earth. This care is essential to our universal success, which is witness to historical events like diseases of the sixteenth-century that European explorers brought to the Western hemisphere or contemporary conveyors now pass globally from region to region.Â
The Makers of the Universe have built a ladder to the stars for
us.Â
Ladder to the Stars
1. Terrestrial elements for rockets and rocket power.
2. Physical laws for a space station floating above Earth.
3. The moon and local asteroids for building materiel.
4. A compressed nitrogen oocean on Titan for crafting our atmosphere.
5. Massive planet atmospheres containing elements for human nourishment.
6. Universal energy for cooking.
And most important:
7. The human brain for strategic planning and problem solving.
What more could a species need to become that for which they are searching!
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