Profile: Alvyn Nacman

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FROM:B'KLYN.N.Y. AGE:80 (07/22/1925) SCIENCE TEACHER-"retired" TAUGHT: K-12, JR. COLLEGE, WIDENER UNIVERSITY and UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE. WAS STATE CERTIFIED IN EIGHT DISCIPLINES. HOBBIES: HUNTING AND COLLECTING METEORITES (have 77 different ones in my collection + plus about 23 suspected meteorites found in DELAWARE and 14 suspected FROM MARYLAND), SPACE STAMPS AND A COIN COLLECTION. AS PLANETARIUM DIRECTOR IN CECIL COUNTY, MARYLAND I PLAYED SOUNDS RECORDED FROM OUR SUN AND JUIPTER. AT THE CHARTER SCHOOL IN WILMINGTON, DELAWARE MY STUDENT CONSTRUCTED A RADIO TELESCOPE (for less than $50, so we could hear our Sun, Juipter, AND LISTEN to meteors passing over the school) PROFESSIONALLY I WOULD LIKE TO SEE "K THROUGH LIFE" - COLLECTING METEORITES, (Einstiens first toy was a magnet, magnets fascinated young children). EVERY SCHOOL SYSTEM IN THE UNITED STATES SHOULD REQUIRE ASTRONOMY (the Mother of ALL sciences), BE APART OF THEIR K-12, CURRICULUM, AS WELL AS, ASTROBIOLOGY AND COSMOLOGY. RADIO TELESCOPES, LASER TECHNOLGY, SOLAR AND OPTICAL TELESCOPES SHOULD BE OPERATIONAL IN EVERY SCHOOL IN OUR COUNTRY. IT WAS AUGUST 11 AND 12, 1932 MY CAMP COUNSELLOR SET UP 2.4" REFRACTING TELESCOPE TO OBSERVE THE MOON - UPON RETURNING TO OUR QUARTERS, THE CLEAR SKIES IN UPPER NEW YORK STATE REVEALED A CANOPY STARS, THE MILKY WAY APPEARED TOUCHABLE, WHEN SUDDENLY A BRIGHT GREEN METEOR 'DOVE' INTO THE MILKY WAY. SINCE THAT DAY I BEGAN A LIFE LONG JOURNEY TO INTO THE MOST EXCITING ADVENTURE FOR THE HUMAN MIND. AT PRESENT I'M COMPILING DATE WHICH STARTED IN MY GRANDFATHER'S ELECTRONIC LABORATORYS BACK IN THE EARLY 1930's. LATER AFTER WW2, I GRADUATED THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL OF MUSIC, AND WAS RECALLED INTO THE KOREAN WAR, THE IDEAS FOR WRITING A BOOK ON THE ACOUSTICAL NATURE OF OUR UNIVERSE - from Quantum to Blackholes began become my goal - studying science is best reflected in our search for truth when use all of our senses - SETI has opened the door into listening, yet one must also hear! IDENTIFICATION OF A SET FREQUENCY IS VERY IMPORTANT, DO WE RECOGNIZE OVERTONES, THE HARMONICS AND THE RESULTS CAUSED? THAT GREEN METEOR WAS TELLING A STORY, SO WERE THE ELECTRONIC TUBES IN MY GRANDFATHER'S LABORATORY. I'M PLACING ? THE BBCODE ? WHY SO LONG??? 8c79cc69788a53f91f2b511c96f1536 HOPE THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED? MY LAST QUESTION IS VERY IMPORTANT TO ME, YEARS AGO I HADE OPEN ACCESS TO SETI. CHANGED COMPUTERS, CARRIER (AT&T), NOW VERIZON. TRIED TO REINSTATE,NOTHING, WAS NOT RECOGNIZED.WHEN I TRIED TO ENTER BOINC, IT NEVER ACCEPTED ANY URL I TRIED--- HELP! Al
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