Profile: gerard fraser

Personal background
WELL IN CASE YOU HAVENT GUESSED YET,I AM GERARD FRASER.I AM FROM NEW WATERFORD,CAPE BRETON,CANADA AND I HAD TO LEAVE HOME LIKE SO MANY OTHERS TO GO OUT INTO THE REAL WORLD AND FINE A JOB.SO AFTER I FINISHED ALL THE SCHOOLING I NEEDED,I TOOK THE BIG STEP,JUMPED ON THE TRAIN AND HEADED TO THE BIG CITY OF TORONTO,CANADA.OF COURSE ON THE WAY IN THE BAR CAR WE HAD A COUPLE OF BEERS AND SPENT ALL OUR MONEY.SO I AM IN BIG T.O.,I WENT TO THE PLACE I WAS TOLD I COULD STAY AND GUESS WHAT,I WAS NOT WELCOME,I WILL NOT GO INTO THAT PART IN CASE SOMEONE FROM ONTARIO IS LOOKING,BUT THERE WAS ONE OF MY BUDDIES THERE FROM CAPE BRETON,I WAS WELCOMED WITH OPEN ARMS TO HIS HOME.TO THIS DAY I DON'T KNOW IF HE REALIZIES HOW MUCH I APPERICATED THAT,BUT I DO,WHILE I WAS AT MY FRIENDS PLACE,AND I COULD BE WRONG,I HAPPENED WHILE I WAS WATCHING A PROGRAM ON T.V. (AND IT WAS ABOUT 1990)IT SAID SOMEONE CAME UP WITH THIS IDEA THAT,WE COULD ANALIZE MORE DATA IF WE CAN GET THE PULBICS HELP WITH ALL THIS INFORMATION WE HAVE FROM THE SETI THING,LIKE LETS SAY GET PEOPLE AT HOME WITH THERE COMPUTTERS TO ANALIZE DATA WE HAVE COLLECTED,WE WILL HAVE THIS THING LICKED INSIDE 30 YEARS,I THOUGHT TO MYSELF,WHAT IS A SETI THING,(WHAT THE HELL IS A SETI THING,BEING FROM THE EAST COAST I DID NOT KNOW NOTHING ABOUT SETI OR SPACE FOR THAT MATTER)BUT ALL I WANTED TO DO IS FIND OUT ABOUT THAT SETI THING.WELL ITS 2001 AND I FINALLY GOT A COMPUTER AND THE FIRST THING I LOOKED UP WAS THIS SETI THING,I AM MYSTIFIED AT HOW COME WHEN I TELL ALL MY FRIENDS THAT I AM HOOKED UP TO SETI,THEY GET THIS LOOK ON THERE FACE THAT THEY THINK I AM GOING CRAZY,BUT WHEN I EXPLAIN WHAT SETI IS THEY ARE LIKE LITTLE CHILDREN IN A CANDY STORE FOR THE FIRST TIME,JUST LIKE I WAS WHEN I FIRST HEARD ABOUT THE FUTURE.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
SETI IS SOMETHING I BELIEVE IN WITH MY WHOLE HEART,BECAUSE IN THE GREAAT UVIVERSE OF ALL COUNTLESS REGIONS OF SPACE,THERE HAS TO BE LIFE OUT THERE,WE JUST HAVE TO HAVE PATIENCE TO FIND THEM.IF IT TAKE LETS SAY 50 YEARS FOR OUR RADIO WAVES TO HIT THE NEAREST STARS THEN IT WILL TAKE 50 MORE TO RECIEVE A MESSAGE.THERE ARE RISKS IN LIFE EVERYWHERE,IF WE GET A MESSAGE OR SOME HINT OF LIFE OUT THERE,WE SHOULD TRY ALL OF MANKIND KNOWN FORMS OF COMMUNICATION,THIS MAY NOT WORK BUT IF WE SEND SOMETHING BACK THEY WILL KNOW THAT SOMEONE IS OUT THERE,IN TIME MANKIND WILL FIGURE IT OUT,I RUN SETI BECAUSE I BELIEVE IN LAWS OF PROBILITY,WITH SO MANY PLANETS THERE HAS TO BE LIFE,AND I WANT TO BE PART OF THE GREATEST DISCOVERY EVER IN MANKIND,AS FAR AS ANY SUGGESTIONS,YES DEVELOPE A CRAFT THAT CAN TRAVEL AT 50 TIMES THE SPEED OF LIGHT AND LETS CHECK OUT SOME OF THESE OTHER BUT I BET THE SAME STRANGE POINTS OF LIGHT IN THE SKY.
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