| Personal background |
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| I'm a 25 year old neurobiology graduate student at Columbia University. I can't imagine a better way for my computer(s) to spend their off time than processing data from SETI. While I don't know if we'll find a signal with the seti@home project, I have little doubt that they are out there, and it's just a matter of finding a needle in a haystack. I really admire this project for the way that it brings together millions of different people across the world, from different cultural and national backgrounds, all devoting their computers to a common cause that will benefit all of humanity. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I think the persistence of life in even the harshest climates makes a strong case for the existence of extraterrestrial life. However, it's a long leap from a bacterium to a civilization capable of sending out radio signals or other signals that different species could interpret. Maybe we've been receiving signals for a long time, and just don't know how to interpret them. It's hard to say, the variety in ways that people express themselves should show how difficult it can be to predict the ways entirely different intelligences would formulate messages, language, or communication.
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