Profile: CheckM8

Personal background
I live in Northern Virginia and work in Washington, DC as a computer network technician for a weekly newspaper. Since I work in the Information Systems department, I'm always given the most up-to-date equipment in our company. I'm currently running a Pentium 4 processor at 1.5GHz.

Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I imagine there are other life forms somewhere out in the vastness of the universe. Some may even posess intelligence. I don't have the knowledge to make any kind of informed opinion as to when and how we will discover such life; maybe next week, or maybe the next millinium. The benefits of such a discovery might be learning new advanced technologies. Perhaps we could learn to travel through time (although that could be more of a danger). Of course the danger exists that we could end up becoming slaves to advanced creatures, but I suspect we would fight to global obliteration before we allowed such a fate for ourselves! If we did in fact find a signal from an alien world 100 light years away, Think about it... it would take 200 years from the time we send a transmission to the time we get a reply! ...and you thought the Internet was SLOW!

I run Seti@Home because I think it's a worthwhile project and I can be a part of something so huge with minimal effort on my part. Who knows... It could be that my computer will process the key data unit which discovers ET! That'd be a trip!
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