I am from Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA.
I was born on On May 14th 1955. Four weeks after Albert Einstein died.
I am an Electrical Engineer.
I enjoy astronomy and the space program. I have 3 telescopes and hate light pollution. I have fun with model rocketry and watch every bit of NASA TV I can find time for.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I learned about SETI@Home years ago but never put it on my computer. I had a 250Mhz PII and heard it took for ever to process a unit. I just got a new Pentium IV computer and can process a unit of SETI data in 7.5 hours. It was the first program I loaded on my new box. I run the program continuously and have over 600 units processed to date.
I was turned on to SETI and the Planetary Society back in the early 80s. I became a Planetary Society member and became a big fan of Carl Sagan. I really enjoyed the way he could explain complex scientific ideas to the common folk. His COSMOS program was outstanding and his books I still like to read today.
This SETI thing, we’ve been searching for quite some time now with no luck. You would think we would have found something by now. I'm starting to have doubts. Maybe we are the only intelligent life forms in the universe! As old and big as this universe is you would think that there could/should have been life forms spreading all through the galaxies by now. We earthlings have only been space travelers for 50 years. In another 100 or 200 we will be sending our life forms to other solar systems and in 1000 to 2000 years to other galaxies. This is just a speck of time in the grand scheme of things. Whole galactic civilizations could have come and gone many times over. I hope we find some evidence soon.
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.
