I think that once we get practiced at searching for life,
and intelligent life, off of the earth that we won't be
able to turn over a rock but that we find life there. In
later years it will be hard to find a soul who doesn't claim
that they knew all along that the universe is bustling
with life.
Re: the SETI@home program:
Will the different observations ever be made available
in a Virtual Observatory format?
It would be fun if we could pick the region of
sky that we preferentially would like to help analyze.
(Either by clicking on a map of the sky, or maybe by
entering RA, DEC and a "diameter" of interest.)
-- Perhaps the more work units we processed,
the more choice of targets we could have. Or,
there could be a "target" lottery system, where
the number of lottery tickets to analyze favorite sky
regions that you can "buy" is determined by the
number of work units completed that month.
It would also be nice if we could see the location
of all of the work units we had completed placed
on a map of the sky,-- perhaps color coded by
the type of feature (if any) found in each work unit.
| 
