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Hallo.
My name is Clare, and I'm an Astronomy Freak.
It started with the pretty fairy-light pictures of distant nebulae, and enchanting views of distant galaxies. This lead to an interest in the night sky, and learning the constellations, the names of the stars, and what those stars were made of.
The more in depth I got, the more fascinated I was: supernovae that are the massive generators of the heavy elements, the age of the universe, even dark matter. I poured over Hubble pictures, watched as Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed into Jupiter, and read as much astronomy, cosmology, and even (oh, this is so humiliating) learned enough maths to understand basic-to-intermediate physics.
In the course of my gentle obsession, I heard about how I could let my itsy bitsy laptop help in the search for intelligent life out among the stars. After all, I'm living in the United States, where the presence of intelligent life in positions of political power is sometimes questionable.
I have to say that participating in SETI@Home hasn't lessened my strange need to understand the stars, but it's fun none the less, and is certainly less expensive than my other obsession: knitting. |
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