Ray R. Collins

Biologist, Geologist,

Interplanetary Explorer

&

CELSS* Adventurer

* for those of you who don't know: CELSS means Closed Ecological Life Support System. See ISECCo for more details!

Welcome to my world wide web site. I first wrote this over the summer of 1995, and am still (forever--last major update in 2013) working on it. So please pardon any gaps you may find.

This web site is written primarily for my own entertainment. But if you have comments you think would improve it please let me know!
I may be reached at (907) 488-1001 (sorry, can't put email on the web!)

Emergencies: what to do if I go missing; gear comments, etc	Writing:Poetry,Diaries & auto-biography
Sailing: I'm nuts about sailing	My Library (incomplete)
Traveling: I love to travel	My Schooling: I'm keen on education
Resumes	Growing up in the bush
Hobbies: many, many, too many!	Places
Logbooks: Flying,Acrux sail boat, Scuba diving	Flying: I am crazy about flying. My Super Cub;310. Mom's 140.
Ray's Rentals: my rental business.[link fails]	ISECCo: The International Space Exploration and Colonization Company--"my" space group.

Links to a Few Friends & Places I like and/or visit often

A good friend, Scott
My twin sisters (they don't really have a page, just a little stuff I wrote for them here.)
My Wife, Frankie
Matt, {his company's web site}
Scott, {his personal web site}

~~A brief upgrade history~~

First created in May, 1995.
Major upgrade done over the summer, and activated in September 1995.
In the fall of 1997 the machine this was on was dismantled, so this web site resided on my home computer with no links to the web.
In the summer of 1998 I rebuilt/verified all the files and by early June had it back on the web.
A partial review was done in the spring of 1999, with re-writes to this page and the schooling page primarily.
A more complete review was done in January-August 2003, where every page was re-read and many updated. Also my web pages has been spread across 3 different web sites, because the size was exceeding that allowed on several machines.
In the spring of 2007 it was brought back under a single web page that resides on a friend's computer (thanks, Matt!)
In March 2010 I began going through it completely, reviewing all files for broken links, a little polishing, etc. As there are over 400 files, this naturally took quite some time!
In the spring of 2011 we let the internet web site lapse.
Spring 2013 I hired some people in Sri Lanka, and one of the projects I gave Dilani was to completely go through the web site and fix/upgrade it.

The current copyright laws protect this page, even though not specifically copyrighted.

However if you want to use portions of it feel free to do so, though I would appreciate it if you would acknowledge my authorship.

Last messed with spring 2013.

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