Profile: Maxxotic

Personal background
I am 23 and a computer science student at Kansas State University. I am married to a wonderful woman whose name is Natasha. Our family is going to gain a new member May 14, 2002 (or somewhere near then as these things tend to go). We just found out it is a boy, as we suspected, as he likes to kick mama a bunch.

Most of my free time is spent fiddling on my computer. I also write short fiction and poetry. After college I guess I will be a programmer or something like that, but we'll see.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
To me, it is hard to believe that there is not life somewhere else in the universe. The challenge for contacting other life is mainly the great expanses between solar systems. If you consider how hard it is for humans to get along with each other down on earth, I don't think that this great separation is an accident.

Human intelligence may indeed be a unitary miracle, a sort of elaborate accident, but there is such beauty in the intricacy of our 'building blocks' that I can only think there was some providence in the mix, and if so, I can't imagine only having one 'test run'.

I think humans are too impatient to wait the necessary amount of time to get a reply from some other life form for it to be very fruitful to send a message, but hey, what else are those multi-megawatt cold war lasers good for?

I run SETI because I enjoy seeing my work-unit number go up, I like the concept of distributed computing, and in the small chance that someone out there is trying to speak to us, we definitely want to be listening.
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