Profile: Ian E. Hopper

Personal background
I live in Novato, C.A (roughly 20 miles north of San Francisco). I'm 28 years old and currently employed w/ U.S Pure Water Corp. I am a rabid reader of SciFi and Fantasy and have been ever since I had "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe" by C.S Lewis read to me as a child. Battlestar Galactica, Powerstar Blazers, and Transformers were all favorites TV shows as a young child. Star Wars, 2001, Flash Gordon (to name a few) all helped develop a (un?)healthy fascination/fixation with technology and the space and it's exploration.

I love to rock climb, mountain bike, stargaze, travel, and spend time with my wife and my soon to be born son Kai!
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
1. Absolutely! And to quote Bill Waterson (who penned Calvin and Hobbes for many wonderful years) "I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has bothered contacting us."
But seriously, they very well MAY be trying to contact us right now. Ever since I saw "Contact" with Jodie Foster.. well, I've been running on the assumption that if a race of beings is intelligent enough to contact us, then we will find some way to communicate. Not that it won't bear it's own dangers: human kind is going to freak for a while when it really happens and everyone knows about it. Not to mention the possibilites for conflict between human and alien culture.
2. Humans should DEFINITELY transmit a beacon for others to find! How the hell else are they going to know we're here? Tell em where we are and ask them for HELP: lord knows we can use all the help we can get!
3. Why do I run SETI@home? Because it makes me feel like I'm part of something bigger, that my little bit of help could be what helps find E.T. Who knows?
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