Profile: Larry

Personal background
I live in the Pittsburgh, Pa area, and work for the Community College of Allegheny County,
I'm an assistant instructor in the Physics department at the Allegheny Campus.
I've been with the College for 21 years and enjoy astronomy. I own two Meade
telescopes, one which I use at home, and the other I keep at a summer place near Erie
Pa. where skys are much better than here in Pittsburgh.
I have other interests but don't think they are relevant here. So that's about it.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I definitely think that there is other life in the universe, probably more
advanced than ours in some cases. Are we getting visitors from these worlds,
like some would have us think, coming and going as regular as street cars. I
seriously doubt that. The laws of Physics pretty well preclude these trips. I know,
what about all those worm holes and black holes hanging out in space just waiting
for someone to drop in and take a short cut. Well, so far, they are just theories.
Great things to speculate about, but until someone can show me one, I'll just wait
for the movie. As for a beacon, I'm not sure how profitable it would be, considering
the time needed to ever find out if we are being received. Consider how long man
has been generating artificial frequencies. How far have they traveled in space?
Considering the size of our galaxy, not very far.
Why do I run Seti@home? I prefer this screen saver over butterflies flitting
across my screen, or Micro Soft logos staring at me. Also I truly believe that
there is a signal out there and if I can help in a very small way to sort through
the data, I think that eventually that signal will be found and we will then
know the answer to that age old question: Are we alone.

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