Profile: Matthew McDermott

Personal background
I am 31 and work in IT at Yale University. I just moved into a house that I renovated with my own two hands. I invest in real estate for a hobby that I hope to make my full time job in the not too distant future. I have been running SETI@home on several machines since shortly after its inception.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I think that SETI@home is the most ambitious project ever undertaken in the search for ETs. I believe it is inevitable that we will find evidence of other centient beings in the universe. It is statistically virtually impossible that there is not life elsewhere in the universe. I am glad that I can be a part, albeit a small part, of this historic project. I hope that proof is found within my lifetime. I think the impact this revelation would have on humankind would have a foundation shaking impact. Maybe then, we can put aside out petty squabbling and unite as one world in the universal neighborhood. If there are ETs already visiting earth, it is no wonder that they try to avoid contact. They don't want to interact with us. We are an unpredictable, violent, petty race of beings. Our first thought when we see somethng in our skies is to try to shoot it down...ask questions later. I think we, as a race need to do a tremendous amount of maturing before we would even be deemed worthy of contact. Just one mans opinion!
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