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    Model railroading, backyard astronomy, space exploration, music (composition, play the French Horn, Oboe, Alto Recorder, and Cornet), learning to play the ukulele (seriously, I am :D), kit-bashing, camping, and hiking, reading great science fiction, and escaping the university campus any chance I get!

    I teach World Civilization, U.S. History, and U.S. Foreign Policy at the college/university level. So, with that said, I love history, love to do research, and enjoy good conversation.

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  1. adsii1970

    Quote of the day:

    Even if we never reach the stars by our own efforts, in the millions of years that lie ahead it is almost certain that the stars will come to us. Isolationism is neither a practical policy on the national or cosmic scale. And when the first contact with the outer universe is made, one would like to think that Mankind played an active and not merely a passive role—that we were the discoverers, not the discovered.

    Arthur C. Clarke
    (Dec 16, 1917 - Mar 19, 2008)
    in The Exploration of Space, 1951

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    2. Dman979

      Dman979

      I'm really liking these quotes recently, even if they're not comic.

    3. ISE

      ISE

      as long as we aren't met by our own dying sun, than I'm all for it! :) but i would rather be discovering, instead of the discovered. 

    4. adsii1970

      adsii1970

      @ISE: Essentially that is what Clarke is saying and it justifies the expense of SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) programs. If we know they are out there then we do not need to be surprised when they show up in our galactic neighborhood. We can still be the discoverer without ever leaving the surface of the Earth.

      In reality, for us to discover them through space exploration and manned (or even unmanned) space flight will be at least three to five hundred years in the future. Right now, the technology, specifically propulsion, is not anywhere it needs to be. Faster than light (FTL) travel will eventually be possible, I believe - but we can't even get any kind of propulsion to the Near Speed of Light (NSL) neighborhood. I believe that once we do get it, then our first step must be NSL unmanned probes - until we can get the anti-radiation shielding developed for interstellar travel.

      If you want to help with SETI research, you can click this link and follow the installation instructions to install BOINC and then assign SETI as the project. Once you've done that, look me up, adsii1970 is my universal user name, and maybe we can create a KSP SETI group.

      @Dman979: Thank you. I wanted to do something different, to encourage others to reach for the stars - not only in KSP, but in real life. Who knows, one of our KSP forum members may be the ONE that actually steps their foot on the Martian surface or makes the trip to Europa!

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