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Hello, anyone who reads this.
I am 60 years old (as of August 2004) and I am a counselor in the financial aid office of a community college in Southern California. I have had a lifelong love of astronomy ever since my parents bought me a telescope for Christmas back when I was 13. Recently, I enrolled in the online Masters in Astronomy program at Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia (5 out of 12 classes finished as of this writing). I started doing SETI @ Home in March 2005 because of a class I am currently taking through Swinburne on radio astronomy and SETI. Once I finish the degree, I plan to teach the introductory astronomy class at my college, which will give me something to do once I retire in about four more years.
My other interests include traveling. I visited Vietnam in August 2004 and Antarctica in February 2005, which are as far apart as can be in just about any dimension you want to name. (My profile picture is from the Antarctica trip). I hope I can continue to travel to new and interesting places in the future. I also spend a lot of my time with my 13-year-old son, who is a joy to have this late in my life. As if I wasn't busy enough, I just finished a PhD in International/Intercultural Education at USC and will march at graduation, May 2005. I guess you can tell that I am a late bloomer. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Why do I run SETI@home: I have had a lifelong love of astronomy ever since my parents bought me a telescope for Christmas back when I was 13. Recently, I enrolled in the online Masters Degree in Astronomy program at Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia. I started doing SETI @ Home in March 2005 because of a class I am currently taking through Swinburne on radio astronomy and SETI. I plan to keep my Macintosh Ti Powerbook up and running for the next several weeks and finish off as many blocks of data as I can for the project I have to write at the end of the semester, in June. After that, I'll just keep it going as a screensaver. I may also get involved in some of the other BOINC projects, gravity waves would also be interesting--and perhaps more likely to find than ET.
My views on the project: To be honest, it seems unlikely to me that we will discover ET, but I am all for looking. This project is great because it seems like there are fewer and fewer places that amateur astronomers, or even those with a just passing interest in astronomy, can be involved in any meaningful way. This is truly a great opportunity to bring a project to the people, regardless of their level of knowledge or amount of equipment.
Suggestions: We should have a really big party once we find ET. |
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