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| Personal background |
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Hello all, I'm Ann. I live in Katoomba, Blue Mountains, Australia. I'm 57, a retired pathology technician and have been an amatuer astronomer since I was a teenager but have always been interested in the sky and stars ever since my dad showed them to me as a small girl in outback Australia at my grandparent's property.. I have my own C8 telescope with computer system and now do astro-photography whenever I get the chance.. When I am not looking at the skies with my scope or wondering who or what is "Out There" I am either painting landscapes or training at my chosen sport of athletics.
I am also field assistant to an Archaeologist in Australia's Blue Mountains and am also interested in Egyptology.
I read, write short stories, paint in watercolours and acrylics, do tapestry, cross stitch and calligraphy. I also enjoy bushwalking and hiking.
The best thing I have done in recent years was to be a volunteer at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games and will be a volunteer again for the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. They were a hoot.
Now that I have moved to the mountains over 3300 ft up I do a lot more astronomy as the skies are just so crystal clear, especially now its winter. The skies are a myriad of stars and very beautiful. There is no cityshine to disturb my seeing the stars and I could just reach out and touch them...they look so close. I call it Astronomy with Altitude. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I first joined Seti@home when it first went online for pc's and have been a member ever since and have over 30,200 hrs worth of WU's clocked up.(603 to be exact) I am a member of BOINC@Australia team.
I have always believed and that we do indeed share the universe with other sentient intelligences and civilisations and that our planet was not just an act of random seeding and that we are not alone in the cosmos and that one day we will make contact with them out there. The benefits to our civilisation would hopefully be in the areas of medicine, technology (not weapons!!), culture and understanding between races and that we could all share in this.
I run SETI in the hope that my small contribution will have helped us make contact one day. Even if it is not in my lifetime, it will eventually happen.
Intelligences are out there, we just have to find them. |
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