Profile: Don Soper

Personal background
Greetings: I'm Don from Long Island, New York I run a Home Remodeling Business and study Computer Science as a sideline. I enjoy building fast PC's and use SETIATHOME to benchmark their performance. I also sell Computer Hardware and Software on my website and on Ebay Auctions. I'm in my 40's and live with 2 Chihuahua's, a Cat and a 75 Gallon Aquarium. (this is starting to sound like a lonely hearts club personal ad!). I'm a grown up (read old) 70's hippie who took the red pill and turned computer geek late in life. PEACE, LOVE AND HAPPINESS TO ALL! SERENITY NOW!!!!
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I believe extraterrestrial life must exist, perhaps not in a form we would find familiar or appealing but life none the less. To define intelligent is a bit of stretch( is an insect intelligent?), ET might be intelligent enough to stay away from us. Extraterrestrial intelligence may visit or communicate with "Artificial Intelligence", who knows?
As for the how and when, How is a good question ET could come as an anaerobic virus attached to a meteor and we may regret its arrival (be careful what you wish for!). As for when perhaps while I'm typing this profile or when we finally stop squandering our resources on destructive behavior like war and devote more to research. Besides being an interesting experment in astronomy SETIATHOME is an interesting exercise in sociology. Think of it almost 4 million of us waking every morning to see if our PC found ET. Is it possible that the psychology dept at Berkeley may be getting more out of this than all of us?
I run Setiathome as a competition to see how many units my PC's can process and what my stats are. It passes the time for a middle age bachelor and gives me a case of the "warm fuzzie's".
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