Profile: qaswix

Personal background
I was born in Sin City - Las Vegas, Nevada - and lived there before moving to Marquette, Michigan where my dad retired from the Air Force. After he became a manager for Wal-Mart, we were moved to Peru, Indiana where I currently live. My dad has since gone back to hourly, and I have joined him working at the same store with him.
I grew up around computers, so it was natural for me to begin programming around 12 years old. My current time-consuming project is developing a massively-multi-player online role-playing game using only standard web instruments, PHP, and MySQL. I hope that someday, "The Quest" will be a common name among RPG enthusiasts.
I have become known among friends for my witty off-the-cuff remarks and not-so-witty wise sayings. My favorite of the first is, "If at first you don't succeed, hide the evidence and deny everything," and of the second, "Be who you are and let them think what they want."
Beyond this, I am an aspiring musician (mainly electric bass) and quite involved with my church.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
In the words of the immortal Calvin (Bill Waterson), "the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere is that none of it has tried to contact us". If we ever did discover ET life, the thousands of expactant people would be easily overpowered by the millions of fearfull masses, who would quickly attempt to conquer any alien races they encountered.
The discovery of ET life would be the consumation of all of mans hopes and fears. The hope that intelligent life exists elsewhere, and the fear that something more powerful than mankind exists elsewhere. I think the discovery of life not of this Earth will not come when they develop the technology to find us, but rather when we develop the technology to find them and find out that they are the same as us. I doubt we will be finding a race of non-carbon super-beings who are lightyears ahead of us, but rather people who look much like us and are developed much like us. The only difference would be in the question of if they allowed the free spread of Christianity, which ultimatley ushers in scientific breakthroughs. The evolutionist's science retards progress at a tremendous rate, because they look for facts that fit in with their theories, rather than generating theories around the facts that surface.
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