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To: Blue Snowshoe who wrote (2413)	7/5/1999 12:51:00 AM
From: Joana Tides	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7442

Howdy Pals, got the SETI@Home software minimized while loading data right now. I had to interrupt it so I can post this. I've, like, got the fans music and airconditioner off so I can hear if any cricket or tapping or other out-of-place noises are coming from outside. Blue, Carolyn, anyone else who installed it...anyone else getting the creeps and the thrills from this, too? Ain't no long-range blunderbuss'd help if hostile aliens decide to pay a visit! So there I was, greatly enjoying the success of the download. Found File, Clicked the green telescope to activate, decided why it might be best not to put my name or email on the site. It looks like A Magic Crystal Garden, where those spiky crystals grow in the jar if you don't disturb it after adding water! While admiring the colors and beautiful design of it, the stats, the spectrum with the changing bands, grokking all that great science stuff, all that...then suddenly, I minimized it quick. Turned off all sound in the house, and then at that very moment, after 11 o'clock at night, there was a knock on the door. It was like The Tingler Buzzer going off in the movie seat, I freaked. But no, it was just my daughter's friend losing track of time on a summers night, calling for her like it's 9:00. At that point, I thought, I'd better write to Techride, I'll feel better. Pals, I minimized it because I had A THOUGHT. I'm not talking about just any ole logical stockstuff thought. And it's not a very idealistic adventurous thought either for this Independence Day and this month the 30 year anniversary of "One Step, One Giant Step For Mankind" either. It's real immature too, it's like a kind of thought I got more when I was a kid squirming in the movie seat in the dark watching Movie #3 at a triple-SciFi-Saturday Matinee. Poor lil kid, passing the popcorn to the friends again just for an excuse to look away from the screen and make sure they're all still there. All bug-eyed and bushy-tailed from watching Peter Graves lead 'em running for their lives through a honeycomb tunnel with aliens from Mars in spacesuits after 'em - right on the heels of watching Rodan calling sadly to its mate in the flames of the erupting volcano - after starting the day off with as close to a stroke as a 10 year old could get when that "Tingler" buzzer went off in the seat at the same time it crawls up the back of the scientists labcoat on the screen. Like all the little hairs all over me stood on end kinda thought. Yep it's been a long time, but SETI@HOME can Do It To It! Yep this thing isn't a movie or watching the skies for irregular lights or reading stuff on ufo/conspiracy links, it could actually be for real and not only that, it could happen HERE! EEGADS Techriders, what do you think would happen if the day comes some person gets THE SIGNAL?? I doubt I'd want it to be me! Would the MIB come here from Berkeley to take my computer to Arecibo? That'd hang me up with my stockstuff alrite!! Would my picture be in the paper and the Enquirer and The Globe? Would my immediate presence in Bezerkeley be demanded? Would I be immortalized as Contact Queen of The Age Of Aquarius Millenium at the Cafe Mediterraneum on Telegraph Avenue? Would aliens materialize themselves through the radio waves to my living room? Or would I have a day when I couldn't stop thinking of an owl at my window the previous night? Brrrrrrrrrr. I guess I better go finish letting them put this info on now. Hope it doesn't jam up my puter, or maybe I hope it does...it'd be an easy decision to uninstall it that way. You know, I would have BEGGED to be allowed to have this when I was a kid, and my parents would have wisely said no. I have a real hyper imagination sometimes about otherworldly stuff like this, like this stuff could almost get me foaming at the mouth or something if I'm not careful. I've got some friends who would freak if they knew this was on here. This is the toy of my dreams. Nanu Nanu, Joanie