Profile: Christopher Daniel Likins

Personal background
I was born in southern California in 1979, said to be attached to computers at birth, when the home computing trend amongst the masses had taken off. My father owned a computer business, designing electronics and software for applications. The seed was set and all my growing was comming. I was 7 when my true interest in computers sky-rocketed, in less than a year I learned enough about programming to bedazzle everyone. At the age of 9 my father turned my interests towards electronics. I hadn't truly gotten into electronics; but it stuck. I was trying to figure ways to control lighting in my room from a central location. I was 12 when everyone was talking about the next wave, Internet, it was going to revolutionize the world... and it has! At 13 I was learning Web design, but still was trying to centralize control of devices. In the years that passed I put several sites together for different people; but I still couldn't stop trying to automate my room. My father helped me build several devices, one was a garage door remote control unit hooked to a flip flop circuit to control a lamp I had. Every year that went on I came up with more ideas and more problems. Honing down the ideas, until one day while I was watching the series Premier of Star Track TNG with my father at his friend home! It hit me, computer automation of devices in the home. I was hooked on my own idea for days not being able to think of anything else. Well that and girls of course. I soon was talking with my father about different things to accomplish this idea. I was more than intrigued, I couldn't help but feel this is where the world would be going. Throughout the years I revamped my ideas. I decided to go into the Navy and in 1998 got sent to one of the best known carriers on the West cost, the USS Carl Vinson. There I became friends with many who said that my ideas would go nowhere, but I worked on to design a lo-cost effective way of remotely controlling devices. DEW TO INCOMPLETION OF MY PROJECT I can't disclose any specifics.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
A portion of the world has focused on the question "What is beyond this planet?" To our knowledge this world doesn't completely know yet. I can confidently say YES we are not alone, we are not just some accident that happened, we do belong to a larger family. Not only would we be naive to doubt it but to lie to ourselves would only put us in danger. Extraterrestrial? Don't over look the large probability of the existence of intraterrestrial beings. Thought time the idea of beings living in the earth has been supported by different texts. Including the well known book "King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table" where they speak of the castle which stood upon the top of a hill above a cave that extended to the center of the earth. Reference to that cave housing beings not of this world are thought the book. There are any number of possibilities if and when our cultures meets that of another worldly culture. A technological shock would almost completely wreck havoc upon our world until we are able to tame our worldly thoughts to harmony and positive relations to every energy source around us. We need not send any signal out from our planet, our presence is well sensed by any beings near by, and any planet of lesser evolved beings we would only confuse. Until we can handle our planet and stabilize out presence in space we haven't a right to disturb other civilizations. The SETI program is a wonderful idea and any support to it should be done in full. Though our research is only in the infant stage, at this stage nothing but positive reinforcement should occur. The expansion and diversification of the SETI program should only increase from here. We are destine to achieve wonderful accomplishments if only we set forth and try.
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