Profile: Collectonian

Personal background
I'm a 25-year-old full-time Programmer/Analyst at the EIT department of Texas Cooperative Extension. Primarily, I am a ColdFusion and PHP web application developer and database designer (and often a tutor on all three). I am also a full-time student at Blinn College working on my associate's degree in Computer Science.



In my spare time I run four personal web sites, hold a monthly photo contest, am President of the Blinn Photography Club, and am game master of my own daily trivia contest (prizes worth up to $20 each month...so come play!). I have a massive variety of interests and hobbies, as evidenced by my personal site. Some of my interests include reading, anime, writing, surfing the net, playing video and computer games, and photography.



Anyway, I've very open to learning new things, and consider myself a semi-liberal when it comes to politics. In particular, I'm a strong believer in the need to reduce the amount of self-induced ignorance in this country, and in the need for American citizens to start trying to get back the rights our government has stole away because people didn't know enough to protest (like our right to die, how we live, what we think, etc.).
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I believe that extraterrestrial life must exist in some form somewhere. I'm not sure when or how we will discover it. Considering our current rate of exploration, however, it is more likely that they will find us first. I believe that finding extraterrestrial life could be a unifying force for our world, through the knowledge that we are no alone. Of course, the extraterrestrial life could be hostile, which would leave us having to defend ourselves against forces we are unlikely to be prepared for. On the whole, though, I do believe that humans should transmit a beacon for others to find. If nothing else, it will be something left behind if we throw ourselves into extinction. It should contain a historical record of our planet, as we know it to be, and any necessary information for replying.

I run SETI@home because I think it's cool to help search for extraterrestrial life and because I feel that the only way we can every truly search the skies with current technology is by having ordinary citizens help out. I run SETI@home on both my home and work computers. The only suggestions I really would have would be to make the SETI@home software let the computer know it's running so any power-saving features that might disrupted it don't activate (or add some info to the FAQ about how which ones might do cause problems).
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