Telecommunications consultant. 25 years in satellite and wireless communications egineering and management. Occasional backyard astronomer (city lights are a bummer!). Avid sci-fi reader. Live in Atlanta Georgia and graduated from Georgia Tech in 1974.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
We should focus our search on extrasolar planets within about 50 ly since they could have heard our earliest radio broadcasts (assuming receving capabilities we would have in the next 100 years) and may have decided to reply.
Its too bad the search can not be conducted closer to real time. By the time we get evidence of a signal it could be years before we listen to same direction/frequency again.
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.
