An IT project manager up the road on Hwy 2 from my fellow group member MetE.
Am pretty sure we're either:
all alone - in which case I contribute to this project simply because the concept of distributed computing on this scale was pretty much unknown before SETI and it's still a cool idea; or
so technologically and mentally insignificant that the folks out there pay about as much attention to us as we do the average anthill - in which case I contribute to this project because, like all good ants, I must scurry hither and dither.
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