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PERSONAL BIO:
I am a retired Naval Archetecture Technician. I retired from the (now demolished in way of a container terminal) Long Beach Naval Shipyard after a little over 39 years there. I started as a shipfitter apprentice in September of 1954, right out of high school, and finished up as a design project leader that included, in the 1980's, structural and armor project leader and configuration manager for the reactivation and modernization of the Iowa class Battleships. The photo I have attached is from a 1982 sea trial of the USS New Jersey (BB-62). I have written a book on the history of the shipyard, with 200 illustrations, and am searching for a publisher. Sometimes I think we will find ETI before I find a publisher.
COMPUTER USED:
The computer I use for SETI@home is a HP Pavilion XL756 that I bought in the year 2000 for its greater memory capacity (30 geg) that I needed for architectural drawings I do with it.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I heard about SETI on TV some time ago but did not consider running it until I upgraded my computer.
I run SETI@home to provide something useful for my computer to do during idle time. I get bored with even the best screen savers and would just as soon have a blank screen while I'm not sitting at it anyway. I just hope that some of those "too powerful" signals thrown out as RFI are not coming from an ET ship orbiting the Solar System trying to get a meaningful answer from us.
THOUGHTS ON E.T.
I find it hard to believe that there would not be other intelligent life in this vast universe. I am a Star Trek fan and hope some ETs look like like Nana Visitor or Majel Barret Roddenberry (whom I did meet at a Star Trek convention in 1992). Actually, when you look at the extremely delicate balance of our planet and its relationship to our own solar system, the conditions that created life on Earth could be duplicated elsewhere but in much smaller numbers. Even the seasonal wobble of the Earth is extremely important in providing a survivable environment. But with the quintillions of stars out there, repeat conditions are quite possible.
SHOULD WE SIGNAL?:
Yes, I think we should be sending out signals as well. It's a toss up as to whether the answer would be "May you live long and prosper" or "Resistence is futile". But what the hell, life is full of chances like that anyway.
Come to think of it, I would lay dollars to doughnuts that ET has been picking up energy spikes from this planet already, starting in July of 1945 at White Sands, NM. In 1958 we set off 76 atmospheric nuclear explosions and in 1962 we topped that with 117 atmospheric tests (plus 61 underground tests). E.T. just may be trying to contact us with the question, "Is anybody there or is anybody still left?" |
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