Profile: Corsair53

Personal background
Born, brought up & educated in Boston. Graduate Aeronautical Engineer with a "Jones" for single engine, prop driven, fixed wing aircraft. Currently working in materials management for a Greater Boston area biomedical firm. Former founding member of a Rhode Island based amateur astronomy organization now just star gazing occasionally with my old reliable Dynamax 8 telescope. Hiking and camping in the backwoods of MA, RI, VT & NH (Yeah, there are plenty of backwoods in MA) and sailing off of Cape Cod take up most of my free time. I have two sons in college (Washington D.C. & New Orleans) and a beautiful wife of 23 years who just completed her Doctorate in Education.(She's much smarter then me anyhow)
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
It doesn't really matter if humanity actually discovers intelligent life beyond our tiny part of the Universe. What matters is that we, as a species, continue to be inquisitive and to explore. I think Seti acts as an awareness of how vast the possiblities are that that we do not exist alone in the Universe and it is a continuation of hunanity's spirit to question.
I'm running Seti@home just to help question. One more WU of data crunched is one more step towards discovery. Maybe we'll never know, maybe we will. I just think it's important to try.
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