My name is killozap and i sit here in germany calculating for seti@home.
I had done some work for the old seti-project and stopped with about 1000 units calculated in 2002 or 2003...
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I am absolutely sure there is intelligent life on other planets, but i am not sure if the distances make it almost impossible to detect anything. But it would be a crime not to try to look for signals from distant planets, perhaps we find something interesting ...
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