Well I live in Wisconsin and I love to help with the search for alien life forms.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I do believe that ET does, but I don't think he is the friendly one that you see in the Speilburg movie. I think that ET is probably wielding a bigger gun than the ones that we can point at him.
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