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| Well, I'm 42 years young, a Graphic Designer/Computer Graphic Artist & a total Tucson-Arizona Desert Rat! I have 2 kids....a 7 ft. Red-tailed Boa named Mesa & a 2 ft. long cat named Kitty :) I love to hike & explore all of Mother Nature. I also love to scuba-dive & sky-dive. I've had 2 Art Shows of my pen & ink animal drawings. Currently I am working on a set of drawings about the Sonoran Desert; the animals & their habitat. But my greatest love is after the sun goes down & the night sky opens up. I've always loved & have been fasinated with the night sky, but it was only 2 years ago I bought a telescope. I finally found the perfect one for me: a 10" Meade Starfinder (Newtonian Reflector) all manual. I find all the deep space objects by charting my SkyAtlas. Because the scope rests in the base by a counter-balance, I can view anything anywhere with just the tip of my fingers. The Orion Nebula was one of the very first things I found & when I did it brought tears to my eyes...I knew then that I wanted to learn everything & find everything I possibly could on the endless night sky above me. And I have....there's nothing I cant find on a star chart. And by studing the stars, its lead me to be fasinated with Binary Star Systems. I've found some beautiful ones. And of course viewing the planets have been fantastic, Mars will be something in August of this year. Everybody keep gazing!!!!! |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1)Definately...some form of life. The when & how is the tough one. At present, we cant even leave our Solar System. I believe there is life out there with extremely advanced technology. And considering that we are the only species on this earth that kills it's own kind, strip the earth of every natural resource, add 4-5 species daily to the extinct list....and so on....a highly advanced culture probably wouldn't even try to make first contact. And if they did, I think we wouldnt understand them, be afraid of the unknown & do what we always do....try & control them, inevitably by force. History has repeated itself too many times. And there is the flip-side, there are species out there that have the technology, but are hostile & we would be the ones in grave danger.
2)As vast as our universe is, a beacon seems to be the most logical thing to do. The info should have several of our languages, our numeric system, something pertaining to sounds/tones. Some brief facts, too much information could be harmful to our species, maybe alittle about our Solar System, not complete DNA, but alittle about us & our world, maybe parts of our history.
3)It's an honor to be part of your program. Anything I can do to help, I'm there 200%!! Projects like this are what's going to change our future. Thank you for letting people like myself be apart of your project. |
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