I'm a graduate student in chemical engineering at OSU.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I don't think we could be the only "intelligent" life forms in such a large space. Hopefully one day man will come to discover that.
Didn't we already transmit a beacon of sorts? The Voyager probes doubled as beacons (in a loose sense).
I think this is a wonderful project and therefore I run the program to do my part.
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