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| 7 years of age, I was allowed staying up late one night in July 1969. You are right! The very day when Cl. Neill Armstrong and his copilot Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin set foot on Lunar Soil. (The Great Hoax IS The Great Hoax) :o) :o). I was very concerned, though, and also felt quite sorry on behalf of Michael Collins, who had to be on his own, when CSM disappeared around the dark side of the Moon. Of cause I wanted to become an astronaut as well but - alas - being from Denmark, at that time made it an absolutely impossible dream, due to the impact of The Cold War, as Denmark had a lot of contact with the DDR (GDR) and The Soviet Union during those days. The impact made on my life, made me a scientific nerd in any good sence of the word, but unfortunately I never became the physicist I always dreamt of. Instead I became an economist (which has a lot to do with a.o. Chaos-Theory and Cybernetics - especially for those of us concerned with human ressources and/or inspired by the late great John Kenneth Galbraith). On top of that I possess a minor in psychology and one in computer-science, the latter obtained by working many years as a systems programmer, starting in the good old days of Z-80 Assembly. Before that I became an electrician, due to my electro- and chemistrylab founded in my room around the age of 13, which a.o. had the immediate advantage that neither my mother, nor my grandmother, dared to clean up, or go sneaking around in, my room. Einstein once said (retranslated from the danish version:) "A Philosophy without contact with Science is and will always stay an empty and hollow scheme. As well as a Science without contact with Philosophy - if such a Science can be thought out to exist - is and always will become primitive and confused". Those words led me to rearrange them a little and jugling a bit with some variables, put into the phrase:"Logic without being in touch with feelings makes the personality empty and hollow. As well as feelings without being in touch with logic makes the personality become primitive and confused". So as well as loving Science - and the Arts - I also became a bluesbrother, leading me to take up guitarplaying for a lot of years, inspired by a.o. B.B. King, Albert King, Albert Collins and especially Clarence Gatemouth Brown, as I quickly realized that I was never going to be able to sing like my great idol Little Richard, but more got into the Jerry Lee Lewis- phrasing sort-of-style. Recently I have also taken up playing alto-saxophone, blues-harp and hammond-organ. At a certain stage I wanted a hobby to take my mind of science, so I dug into my hobby from childhood - stamp collecting. Nice and quiet thing to keep one a bit away from everyday life; that is: because now being able to buy the old and more expensive, very interesting stamps, which could not be obtained in the childhood, stampcollection also became a science, due to the wisdom obtained from my academic education. (Denmark, 4 sk. brown ,bicolourstamps and wave-line-stamps, 2nd country Vatican State. Also a lot of trading-material from Finland, USSR and various arabian kingdoms, the latter mainly pictoresque stamps - should any like minded collector out there have any interest in that part of my life). I also once made contact with a psychiatrist. He was completely bald-headed. When the time was up at the first consultation, he had grown a full Elvis Presley haircut in nice grey hair, which made me give up the idea of consulting a psychiatrist ever again. Pictures from Hubble, Nasa and the likes is now my favorite therapy alongside with many lonely(due to the cold) winter-nights at my 80 mm. telescope. Due to the many younger economists being around and danish companies age-segregation-policies, I now live off of various free-lance occupations, giving me sufficent time to try to contribute to real science once again by lending out computertime when not programming some C++ for fun or hacking a bit of Linux. Some years ago I joined the SETI-community. That was also my first priority, but I could not gain access to the project, as I had forgot my password and was not allowed to create a new account with my once used and still only e-mail-adress. Oh, just one more thing: The Wonder of God does not only consist in the fact that one is brought into the world, but also consist in the fact that one has not left it yet! I very much hope our combined efforts may lead to the desired results. Many warm regards Michael "Dalle" Edahl, B.Sc, B.A. | |
| Your opinions about Einstein@Home | |
| 1) As also stated in my profile, I am a Science-NERD (in the positive sence of NERD - and maybe I am also a little inspired by a certain Dr. Strangelove, not to mention my hero from the Youths reading-lots-of-science-fiction, Sir Arthur C. Clarke). Science has thus given me many happy impacts in my life, and now I am able to pay-back a little my huge debts to science. 2) Why did I not think of it? 3) At this moment, the team seems to have thought of just about everything, making it very hard for me to find any ways to improve it. | |
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