I am a 23 year old Air Traffic Controller in the United States Army. I have always been very interested in Science and Astronomy. I recently discovered this program on the television show JAG. I immediately stopped watching the program to come download the software, and I now have it running on both of my computers. I would love for people to finally learn for sure that we are not alone in the universe. The numbers imply we can not possibly be alone.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
Yes I most defiantly believe that extra terrestrial life is out there. I have no clue when and where we will discover it. Sometimes I wonder if the government already knows something that the average person does not. Benefits could be awesome depending on the views and believes of the aliens we encounter and how far advanced they are compared to us. The dangers are I don't really believe that mankind is up for such a discovery. We are not near as advanced or civilized as we like to think we are. We have people on this planet still living without running water and (or) electricity. We have people killing each other in the streets over religion or race. I think mankind as a whole needs to take some big steps and mature much more before we are truly ready to encounter an alien culture. That being said I still hope we discover them. Maybe that would force people not to be so close minded. Yes humans should transmit a beacon to space for others to find. It should probably contain mathematics of some kind or a way used to tell them how to communicate with us in return. So I would think Math would be the most logical thing. I run SETI at home because I want to help us discover ET any way I can. If running this little program in my home helps, then I will keep doing it. And it would be really cool to have the computer that discovers ET!
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.
