Profile: Holly (The Airborne Swine Squadron)

Personal background
Well, I'm not exactly sure that any other SETI@home users will find this all that interesting, but...


I'm from Indiana in the United States, a 47 year old Customer Support Manager for a software company, previously employed at a university where I first started using SETI@home the end of May 1999. When I transferred it to my 800MHz Dell laptop at home earlier this year (2001), I went from 33 units to (currently) 275 units, even though there have been several weeks when the laptop has been unavailable to process signals. Yee-ha!!


I was a musician in a former life (the music never leaves you, though), and I've been taking riding lessons for the last 10 months after almost 30 years of not riding. I'm also a published author (but nothing earth-shattering).

Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
A friend of mine at the university where I worked pointed me to SETI@home. Why do I run it? I think it's horribly egotistical to think that we are alone in the universe, let alone that we are the only intelligent beings. I don't know who will find whom first, but the benefits and potential dangers are intuitively obvious. And, yes, we should transmit our own signal, too.
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