I'm a school psychologist located in northern California. I've been interested in astronomy and space all my life.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I suspect that assorted low level life forms will be found to be fairly common; however, I also feel that self-aware life forms with communication and abstracting abilities will be far and few between.
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