Profile: Alexander J Maidak

Personal background
I am a math and computer science student at Augustana College in Rock Island IL. I work for John Deere & Company in Moline IL as a Computer Infrastructure Analyst. I enjoy reading science fiction and biographies and am an avid professional sports fan. I enjoy playing basketball and working with LINUX in my free time. My favorite sports teams are the Boston Celtics, Chicago Bears and Chicago White Sox.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I do believe that extraterrestrial life exists (or has existed). Unfortunately I do not believe that humanity will encounter them in the next thousand years. This is a result of the shear size of the universe and the low probability of a world developing intelligent life. I think that great benefits for humanity are at hand if we ever do encounter another type of being. Most importantly we will learn we are no longer alone in such a large universe. Hopefully, this will degrade our cultural insularity and lead to greater unity among humanity. I run SETI at home in the shear hope that humanity will beat all odds and in fact encounter extraterrestrial life but I also play the lottery and hope to get rich.
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