My name is Michelle Bautista, 27 and I work for Departmental Onsite Computing Services (DOCS) with IST, fixing Macintosh computers. I was born and raised in Oakland and graduated from Cal in 1997. I'm very local. The rest of my time I spend writing and performing poetry as well as teach classes in the Philippine Martial Art of Kali.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I'm a sci-fi fan and believe the possibility of etraterrestrial life. I think they will probably discover us first. And like all the other "discoveries" we have made, there are plenty of benefits and dangers. But for me the benefits of knowing there is more to our universe than just us and the hope of something greater far outweighs the dangers. We are probably the greatest danger to ourselves at any rate.
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.
