Everything you ever wanted to know about me, (and probably some stuff you wern't sure about either way...): http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=cloudwalker_3
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
1 - Yes. It would be very arrogant to assume that we're the only intelligent life that evolved in a universe of billions of star systems.
2. Complicated. Just because life exists doesn't make it friendly! Independence day, though a bit crap does make a very pertinent point.
3. For the chance to be the person who's computer finds 'that' signal! I think the project is a brilliant use of resources and very innovative.
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.
