"I don't think God put me on this planet to judge others. I think he put me on this planet to gather specimens and take them back to my home planet."
- by Jack Handy

Even as a young boy, laying in a field in central New Jersey & pondering the stars in the night sky, I always contemplated life on other planets. Not life as in the case of mankind, but in any form - plants, bugs, animals.

I can vaguely remember when we placed the first man on the mooon & have always believed that we would step up to the challenge of further exploration of the other planets and moons in our solar system. It has always saddened me that, while we have been able to take room sized computers & shrink them to the size of a book, we have not been able to do more than lob our austronauts into low level orbit.

SETI deserves more funding, more time, more hands & I am proud to be a part of SETI@home. If there is a more intelligent species out there, we have a lot to learn from them. If we are the most intelligent, then we still have a lot to learn.

"There are two distinct possibilities: either we are alone in the Universe, or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."
- Arthur C. Clarke

Being raised in a somewhat modern-reformist-orthodox jewish home, where God is both accepted and ignored, I had always looked for the answers to life in two different camps: science and religion.

Two mutually independent camps that, without one another, would never provide me with any complete answers.

The fact that there is life on Earth tells me that there is life somewhere else in the universe. We are but a composite of chemicals; chemicals which are abundant elsewhere. In the scheme of things, life is not complex... just rare. Diamonds are rare, but I believe they exist on other planets as well.