Profile: PrdAmrican

Personal background
I am from Rocklin, Ca (near Sacramento). I am a Network Specialist/System Admin, for one of California's largest school districts. I have been working with computers since 1977 or so.
My hobbies include computers, Xbox, hunting, shooting, "geocaching", traveling, and spending time with my wife & children.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I do believe there is other life outside of our planet, despite my Christian beliefs. The universe is just too great and varied for there not to be... either there is lots of life out there, or none (we are it).
When will we discover it? It could happen anytime. However, our current technological abilities prevent us from communicating with any intelligent life outside our solar system (or so) unless this life is looking for us (ie, they were in the neighborhood just passing by).
It's really too late to ask whether we should be transmitting a beacon.... we already are with all the electronic noise we generate. If someone out there is looking, and has tha ability to communicate with us and is in range, they will hear. Anybody (I use this term loosely) less sophisticated than us is too far away, and anybody more sophisticated than us (with the ability to get here) is probably so far advanced, it won't matter too much what we send. They will undoubtedly have the ability to see what we are doing already. I hope they are friendly :).
Why am I running SETI@Home? Because it's one of the coolest projects in IT, and I would love to think someday there will be a real StarTrek Enterprise for us to voyage the galaxy in! Who knows, maybe some super-advanced extra-terrestrial neighbors will stop by and share with us in my lifetime!
Beam me up Scotty!
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