Profile: Matt Watkins

Personal background
Living in the Pacific Northwest and working at a computer help desk I've become facinated by the increasing probability of intelligent life elsewhere in the cosmos. Not that looking through the telescope as a kid at the moon or specks of planets wasn't interesting, but it was the advent of the Internet and distributed computing that I realized I too am able to contribute to the great search.

When I'm not searching for SETI I'm diving into the watery portion of our world and seeing new things with every SCUBA dive.

And, when opportunity allows I take every chance I get to go flying.

I'm running Seti@Home Command Line program on 3 to 5 Windows computers including an AMD Athlon 1400, AMD Athlon 800, AMD K6-350, and Intel P3-650. I first ran Seti@Home on a Cyrix 133 .
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
The digital revolution promised many things and although we may become mired in some of the more commercial aspects as of late, I'd like the SETI endeavor to continue. The act of searching itself, holding the slightest glimmer of earnest hope that something might be out there seems a pure form of exploration that includes us amateurs too.
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