Profile: magic_p

Personal background
I am originally from Toledo, Ohio, but now live in a suburb called Oregon, Ohio. I'm 21 years old and network administrator/teacher at St. Francis de Sales HS in Toledo where I graduated with honors from in 1998. I earned my BS from the University of Dayton in 2002.


I am a long time member of Team ArsTechnica Lambchop.


I just graduated from the University of Dayton and was lucky enough to find a job working somewhere. My degree was in Computer Information Systems with a minor in Psychology. When I'm not working on computers I like to play sports (baseball, soccer, football, bowling, swimming), hang out with friends and make fart jokes.


As you can tell (maybe) from the picture, I am also a huge Dragon Warrior (Quest) fan and have all four original NES carts and have tried to get ENIX to re-release 5 and 6 in the US in English. I've even considered buying a PS2 just to play DW7.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
Seti is going to be one of those projects that isn't actually going to find aliens from another planet. We will not make contact with Seti in it's current form.


If there are other life forms out there, fine. However, I think that as a human race we need to think more about what we are doing right here on good old Earth before we start looking into space for ET. This project is still worthwhile as we will learn something from it in the end, but even if it did find aliens, what would happen then?


Most likely I would guess nothing because we would spend a long time trying to figure out how to communicate with them, assuming they have a structure of living anything like ours.
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