Profile: John Grantham

Personal background
I'm an American, 30, married with no kids, originally from Virginia but live in Germany, and work as a self-employed web designer and user interface designer. I have lived in Germany for over eight years. I'm interesting in Linux for Macs, medieval European history, Asian cuisine and English roses. If you feel like finding anything else out, visit my website at http://www.grantham.de/.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I'm totally unconvinced that there is any intelligent life out there. If there was, they almost certainly would have come to Earth and destroyed us all for bombarding them with "I Love Lucy" reruns for the last thirty-odd years. Then again, maybe they are so clever that they are just letting us destroy ourselves (which we're pretty good at doing so far). Or maybe aliens actually helped us develop the atomic bomb, carcinogenic pesticides, and White Castle hamburgers, all in the hope of us slowly self-destructing. But with S@H, we're going to completely outwit them – find out where they are and start beaming "The Jerry Springer Show" right at 'em. I say we rig Arecibo Radio Observatory's dish up to start beaming "T.J. Hooker" right now as a test run – you never know when it may come in handy. Maybe beam out the "Spock's Brain" episode of "Star Trek: The Original Series" as a veiled threat.

I mean, come on, what *else* did you expect me to say? I've got over 300 units done, so obviously I believe in this. And to all those aliens out there, I would like to say that "I Love Lucy" is not at all representative of us Earthlings. We promise to start sending only BBC documentaries from now on. Honest.
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