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| Personal background |
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I am 53, supporting a family of 3, and currently underemployed. I recently returned to Muncie, IN, after giving up my "Dream Job" as a member of the Engineering Staff (Rocket Scientist) of Truax Engineering, Inc., in
California (My family hated it there), working on the design, development, and fabrication of the suborbital Excalibur XS reusable launch vehicle. My current employment is as a security officer for Allen Protection Service, and as a substitute teacher for the Muncie (IN) Community Schools. I hold a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Ball State University, and have one year of graduate school toward a Masters degree in Physics. I have over 1300 hours of USAF training in electronics. I have taught Physics laboratories, part-time, for the Ball State University Physics dept., I have also taught an educational psychology class at Ball State.
I have a strong interest in electronics, and a particular fascination with nucleonics, thermodynamics, and aerodynamics, as well as astrophysics. I have been trained in the handling of radioactive materials. I have over nine years of actual job experience in one sort of electronics or another.
I have devised a number of inventions, although I have not sought patents on any of them to date. I have done considerable private study on neutron fusion reactions for clean power generation. I work in theoretical physics, specifically cosmology/cosmogony as a hobby, and am currently attempting to complete work on a Unified Field Theory, which I began developing over thirty years ago.
EDUCATION:Bachelor of Science in Physics (B.S.U.). Minors in Math, Astronomy, Psychology, and Philosophy. One year of graduate school toward a Master of Science degree in Physics. USAF electronics training.
SKILLS:Physics, mathematics, electronics, teaching, programming, word processing, spreadsheets, statistics, management, some surveying, photography, writing, small parts assembly, etc. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. I do believe extraterrestrial life exists, though recent Hubble data lead me to suspect it has not been around much longer than it has been on Earth. I fear that we may be among the first to achieve our level in this galaxy...the Drake equation is seriously altered by the idea that the stuff we're made of has only relatively recently been around in sufficient quantities to make us. If there are others to be discovered, the possible benefits and dangers are beyond my imagination, but dealing with that kind of thing is what humans do...we must be what we are or we are nothing at all.
2. Mixed feelings about a beacon, unless we have a good idea where a receiver might be it seems pointless. In a way, we're already transmitting a beacon.
3. If they're out there, I want to do what I can to find them. I think this project is one of the most momentous projects our species has ever undertaken, whether it succeeds or not. I'd love to see more funding, and an expansion of scope to look for any sort of extraterrestrial anomalies that might indicate an operating intellegence (Galactic engineering in progress, Dyson Spheres, etc.)
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