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| Personal background |
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I am a civil service employee working for the US Navy at China Lake California. I am an Electronic Technician by trade but have been working as an Integration Engineer and currently as a Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Case Manager for Canada on the F/A-18 program. The F/A-18 was the first military jet to earn a dual designation as both a Fighter (air-to-air combat) and Attack (air-to-ground) aircraft. As an FMS Case Manager, I am the primary point of contact between the Canadian Forces and China Lake. The US have sold Canada early model F/A-18s and we continue to sell them software updates to mulitiple processors on-board their jet which implements new functionality for weapons, sensors, data links, and other capabilities.
My hobbies included motorcycling, flyfishing, and computer. As a motorcyclist,
I hold certifications as a Motorcycle Safety Foundation (MSF) and California
Motorcycle Safety Program instructor and taught classes at China Lake. I ride a 2005 Honda Gold Wing GL-1800A. I also am a member of the Iron Butt Association http://www.ironbutt.com/ and recognized with multiple certificates (Saddlesore and Bun Burner GOLD). I fly fish the Easter Sierras and am a member of the local flyfishing club, the Aguabonita Flyfishers. I started using computers when S-100 systems running the CPM operating system (prior to DOS) was the norm. My first computer was the Osborne One touting a 5 1/4" BW display, two 92K floppies, 64K of RAM, and no hard drive. It was the first "transportable" PC on the market. That should date me as being 56 years old. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. Yes, I believe ET life exists, although we may have to redefine what is life when we make first contact. I believe other life will find us before we find them because we have been radiating RF much longer than we have been searching using SETI. I think that when ET hears us, our first contact will be via SETI as they respond via RF as a precursor to a physical visit. The benefits I hope we will gain via an ET discovery is to learn how to make exploration of distant planet a possibility without enduring multiple lifetimes in transit. The danger of contacting ET life is that they will be inherently conquers or will carry a disease that would threaten human existance.
2. Yes. I think great minds have already figured out what information would
lead to a basis for rudimentary communication and understanding. SETI knows
what frequency it should be sent on and which direction would have the best
likelyhood of interception. It just needs to be done.
3. I only run SETI on one computer and don't leave it running 24/7 so my SETI@home numbers are not impressive, but I am contributing. I don't expect to be the one to find ET but I can hope to help narrow the gap in the computing power. I am impressed that SETI represents the largest distributed computer in the world.
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