Well - not all danes are vikings - some are schoolteatchers - I was one until jan. 2001. And I was a computeradmin. with 70 stations under 2 IBM-Netfinity 5000 series. - Thats where I heard about the Seti-program.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
If you user your common sense there is no way you can deny the existens of extraterrestrial intelligence - Our goal is to find them... maybee they already have found us?
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