A Brief Pause From The Ordinary..., Demographics time--please just humor me |
A Brief Pause From The Ordinary..., Demographics time--please just humor me |
Apr 18 2005, 01:52 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 24 Joined: 17-April 05 Member No.: 236 |
I just joined this community last night, and I'm just curious about some of the people here. I'm only 19 years old, but I'm more interested in all things space than anyone I've ever met. Just out of curiosity, what are people's ages in this forum?
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Oct 31 2006, 04:11 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 160 Joined: 4-July 05 From: Huntington Beach, CA, USA Member No.: 429 |
I'm 34 years old, native of Saint Petersburg, Russia (it was Leningrad, USSR back then). Although my diploma was in physics, I fell in love with free software just before I graduated in 1995. I started working as a programmer, but it was only after I moved to the United States in 1999 that I started being paid for doing free software work. I'm developing software for radio mesh networks, primarily for military purposes. I quite familiar with most Linux wireless drivers.
I live in Pennsylvania now, on the far edge of Philadelphia suburbs, but I lived in Massachusetts and New Jersey before. It may be of interest for other UMSF members that my aunt was working as an engineer on the Lunokhod and Venera projects. My uncle was guarding the N-1 launch site as a soldier and saw those mammoth rockets fail. I was deeply impressed by the space pictures when I was a little boy. As a teenager, I was a big fan of Sci-Fi. It gave me the habit of looking at things "From another planet", somewhat akin to Carl Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot". I'm a big fan of the Mars Exploration Rovers, and I check their status almost every day. I don't have time to contribute anything serious, and my knowledge of geology is clearly not on the par with that of other UMSF members, but I'm quite content with my role of an observer. I'm contributing in a different way. Many UMSFers may be running software containing my code or at least my bugfixes. |
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