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Hi! I'm Australian, pushing 50 but I love mountain biking and grueling road bike rides. My hobbies are astronomy (I own a Meade LX200), playing with Mac computers and generating digital videos. I moved to the US in 1987 on a 2 year assignment and never thought of going back to Australia (the greatest country in the world after the US, and way ahead of New Zealand and England).
At the age of 14, I joined the Victorian UFO Research Society because I thought I had spotted something strange one evening. Even at that age I couldn't stomach all the shallow UFO stories, and I finally became very skeptical about aliens amongst us. I certainly couldn't buy any of the alien abduction stories.
And now, years later, I'm officially called "an Alien" by the I.N.S. I love it. Where did they dream that up? (Reminds me: I have to renew my Green Card soon!)
Most recently I've spent time giving star parties to school kids. For them, seeing Saturn, Jupiter, the Orion Nebula and Andromeda galaxy for the first time is a blast and I know it will influence their lives for years. I hope it puts them closer to God. It has for me.
And I'm still skeptical of aliens flying across the galaxy to reach us. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Life in the Universe
There's no doubt that the universe is teaming with life.. I'm certain that life is not a fluke, but that the universe has some basic law that leads to life. I have no scientific proof of this feeling; it just seems intuitively obvious.
But most likely, most of the life in our own galaxy is made up of fish, dinosaurs and insects, or the alien equivalents. Consider that dinosaurs roamed the Earth for around 250 million years, and as far as we know they never once built a radio transmitter to send signals to other planets. So I'm not surprised that SETI hasn't hit the jackpot yet.
But we need to keep looking.
Origin of Life on Earth
One of my pet theories on the origin of life on Earth is that it was seeded by the remnants of a planet that once orbited another star and came to an unfortunate end. The remains of that planet floated through space and contaminated our solar system with either the right molecules, or living hardy microbes. Perhaps the Ort Cloud is made up of such remnants. And maybe this is how life will survive in our galaxy and populate the Universe.
UFO Stories
I'm particularly upset about the so-called UFOlogists in our community. And all the air-time they receive on cable TV. According to these guys: (i) a super-intelligent civilization on a distant star, (ii) built a fabulous space ship; (iii) traveled millions of miles across space; (iv) reached our star; (v) located our earth (very hard to do if you don't know where to look); (vi) came within our own gravitational influence...... (vii) and then CRASHED in the desert of New Mexico! Wow, if they ever get home again, they're going to get their butts really kicked bad (viii)!
Hey! I'm just kidding.
Please drop me a line and share your thoughts: joe.longo @ comcast dot net
You can find more of my work at my home page.
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