My name is Jason Stroud, born January 3, 1981. I attend the Georgia Institute of Technology, and my field of study is psychology. I have two parents, a sister, a loving girlfriend, and a pet chihuahua that is my baby.



I work at HAPL and AAA, which are psychology labs at my college. In my spare time, I pester my girfriend and come up with crackpot ideas that never work. I'm a jack-of-all-trades, but unfortunately a master of none, and I have a nasty habit of abandoning projects partway through.



I remember the days of He-Man, LiteBrite, and Hungry Hungry Hippos. I get passionate about music, cheese, and technology. I don't believe in god, I adore animals, and I love chocolate, especially with nuts.

I believe there is definitely life out there somewhere--probably way way out there. I do not believe that we have ever been visited by intelligent extraterrestrial life, or that we ever will be.



The universe is a very large place, and space travel is very awkward and difficult. Even if there were life on planets orbiting Alpha Centauri, the nearest star to our sun, we would never see it.



SETI, in fact, has only the vaguest ghost of a chance of detecting radio waves from presumably intelligent extraterrestrial origin. But there's always that remote possibility, and if there is a chance at all, I think we should continue in our search.