I'm a student of computer science at the university of Marburg/Germany.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
If there was nothing out there, wouldn't it be a waste of space? But what, if we are not able to see or hear another a maybe very different kind of intelligence? We'll never know, if we don't try!
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