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I'm originally from Thailand but now make my home in Anchorage, Alaska. In my short life (30 years) I have lived in Thailand, Germany, Nebraska, New Mexico and finally here. I arrived in Alaska in 1991 by way of the US Air Force. During my time in the military I fixed avionics (electronics) on F-15s. I worked mostly on the secret electronic warfare stuff. I left the service after 6 years and now work for the US Postal Service as a clerk. It's not a great job but it is a government job with great benefits.
I have two great kids, a daughter who is eight and a son who will be six. I love science fiction and used to want to work on the SETI program. I must admit that I liked the movie Contact. I love classical science fiction and Star Trek (but the newer ones better then the original, much to the chargrin of my dad.) I was never much of a James Kirk lover, Picard is more my type.
For fun I snow ski, bike ride, hike, read and play around on the computer. I am currently pursuing my bachelor's degree in Aviation Administration through the University of Alaska Anchorage so that I may get my master's degree in Aviation Safety through Embry-Riddle. Can you tell I love airplanes??? |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I have always thought that there is other lifeforms out there. The universe is just to vast for us to be the only living things. They may or may not be intellegent or even something we can recognize as living but something must exist out there. I think it will still be quite a while before we discover other life and like the classic Twilight Zone (or was it The Outer Limits) episode where they discover that the great book from the aliens is a cookbook, there are always dangers inherent with such a discovery. They may want nothing more then to blow up the planet to make room for an intergalactic highway (sorry Mr. Adams, couldn't help myself) or they may want to open communications with us. But I would think that any intellegent lifeform would take one look at us and have pity on us for the woes on our own planet.
I definitely think we should continue the SETI program but as far as sending out a signal...that is a great assumption on our part that our signal would be received and understood. Sometimes as humans we are arrogant in our view that what we understand will be understood by others.
I run SETI for two reasons: First and foremost to help the program in finding alien life or at least a signal and second because it looks cool on my computer :)
We have made such great advances in science and technology and if it wasn't for the Dark Ages we may have already colonized the moon. I hope to play a small part in pushing our knowledge and understanding of this great big universe that we are just a speck in. I look up at the night sky and am always in awe. |
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