| Your personal background. |
David is a University of California graduate, class of 1956, retired from the California State Health services as a Supervising Microbiologist.
I lived in Berkeley all together about 29 years. I am a World War veteran in the Normandy campaign, coming in at Utah Beach head and stayed in the US Army for 8 1/2 years. During my tours of duty, I have seen the Nurnberg Trials, saw Rudolf Hess, second in command to Hitler, saw the trial of Ilse Koch, the wife of a camp commandant who order the skinning of prisoners for their skin to make lamp shades. I worked with the German Youth Activities, a program to help the youth towards democracy post WWII in the Karlsruhe Kreis area. I have seven children, three grandchildren and one great grandson. One of my daughters teaches college at Seattle, WA.
My hobbies included astronomy and time to time I use my 6 inch reflector to search the heavens for new objects, a few years ago, I watched close approach of Mars and noted its receding south pole ice cap and changes in color. My other hobbies are classical music, a subscriber to the SF Symphony and other Bay Area concert groups like the SF Chamber Orchestra, SF Conservatory of Music.
I also look down into the earth and have been on six dinosaur expeditions in Montana, Utah, Wyoming, California and the Negev Desert. In my retirement, I audit classes at the Berkeley campus, about 250 by now. I have ran a Mission to Mars class doing research projects. We published a paper on the Feasibility of liquid water on Mars,for Life Follows Water adage of NASA, Survival of Extremophiles (halophiles)on Mars and gave a few lectures for professors.
I am enjoying life and I wish I could live long enough to see Man on Mars.
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| Your opinions about Einstein@Home |
Acutally, I want to continue the Arecibo Project I was on for SETI, but I am not able to get on the ALLEN Large Array project yet. To date, we have not found anything out there yet, but I strongly believe that we are not alone, a reason being a member of SETI. I often wonder what "Aliens" would be like, probably have some human traits if their life is carbon based because I think life forms will follow the best course of development dictated by biological, chemical laws that we know about.
What to we say to the "Aliens", hopefully that they are friendly if we could contact them, let alone meet them because the distances are so infinitely huge. Human endeavor says we must try and try. That's what our spirit is made of.
Good Searching and maybe some Aliens will read this message one day far off in the future, sometime, some other Universe, perhaps. |
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