Profile: Athos Robinson

Personal background
Hello, SETI community! I'm very pleased to be with all you, more than five million till to day(5x10^5 really at work). First, I explain the picture. He is my last grandson, Athos IV, 5 months. He represents The Future. I'm 59 and was born at Talca, Chile. I'm medical doctor. My career was, in short, 5 years as general practitioner as the chilean way, doing job as Director and surgeon, and pediatrician, and obstetrician, and internist, at little cities. Then a residenceship in general surgery, at Santiago. After that, I was one year at Antartic Continent, far away from my wife and children. From the 80's begining, I added Nosocomial Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. In 1991, I returned to University of Chile to make a Public Health Magister. After that, I created my Department of Epidemiology at my Hospital. My interest for the Heavens started at 7 years old, from my Dad's lessons. He painted star maps as early as 1941. I knew about expanding Universe in the Life Magazine in 1954. My first star map was from NGS, before 1960. You can understand that I can't think no other thing different to life in all the Universe. When I was student I was clear about the difference between to accept life in other worlds and believe in UFO's and aliens. The serious astronomy and astrology. I worked in variable stars observing for AAVSO when I was 17 through 20 years, being member of an Astronomy Club. To day, I'm Planetary Society Member. Thanks to my career, I see the microscopic world and the bigest span of the 14 x 10^9 light-years of the Universe Radius. Because that, I reject the new "de mod颠to explain all the beginings with catastrofic events. The life is capable to start alone wherever to give it the raw material with enough concentration, but not in the interstelar space, where we discover a lot of molecules, perhaps big quantities but not as concentrated as in a planet's ocean. I want suggest an idea, the big extinction of the Permic, wasn't an impact.IT WAS THE EARTH/MOON UNLOCKING FACE TO FACE! AND THE LIBERATION OF THE PANGEA. After that, nucleus, mantle and cortex gone to re-ordering, and started the continental drift, and it's outcome: big volcanism.(Jan 2004).
SETI THOUGHTS(Answers the questions from old SETI profiler)
1. Extraterrestrial life? Of course! But The Big Big Universe opposes greater distances than our technology can overcome. Neither we can't measure confidently all factors of Drake's formula. A good scientist doesn't adventure to say when and how the humans will discover it. I believe that will run a few centuries more for that encounter, and it is completely absurd to imagine that encounter, because the world and the colective mankind thinking changes in only one century. 2. Should? No. Possible, yes. But with any possibility to receive a response. No, I'm wrong, mathematicaly, the probability is 0.00000000000000000000000001. 3.1.To feel part of a serious scientific project.-3.2.Low probability.-3.3To do the same at Southern Hemisfere, with the same potency. ALMA Project, at Chajnantor, in the Atacama Desert will be an opportunity. I think we will be closer to discover intelligent signals, when we will construct big radiotelescopes out of the planet, with kilometric dimensions, and with interferometric technics. The Future. The same word as I started in my profile. Sincerely with you, Athos. PS.On this next years, it could be possible to do radio interferometry with resources from USA, Puerto Rico, Australia and Chile. Big Project for BOINC!
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
1. It's the most direct way to do science for all us only astronomy amateurs.
No way the little cost to keep running our PC round the 24/7, and the very common result: upgrading.
Same reasons because I run others Projects at BOINC.
2. I think it is under threshold of the needed technology, like the search for rocky and watery-atmospheric planets same as Earth.
3. As I said in upper lines, it's required radiotelescopes of kilometric dimmensions in the outer space operated with interferometric technic.
Meanwhile, I suggest to construct a colaborative web of big computers to make the server job, resilient to crashes as we had saw recently. Perhaps, other Universities. Let's remmember the chips running PC's are constantly getting better.
Another suggestion is to do interferometry with radiotelescopes ground based.
The next years ALMA Project will be prompt to work, at Chajnantor, Atacama, Chile, adding a big antenna in the Southern Hemisphere.
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