I´m a 28 year old and live in Sweden.
I grw up watching Star Wars and Star Trek so for me it was an easy choice to help SETI search for Yoda so he can teach me that thing with the rocks :-).
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
Extraterrestrial life does probably exists, but not as littele green men but I don´t think we will find any evidence of that in my lifetime.
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