I am 17 years old and a student at college in the UK. I am studying Electronics, Computing and ICT. I am interested in astronomy, programming and Archery.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I feel that we would be very stupid to believe that there is even the possibility that we are the only inteligent life forms in the universe.
I think that it might be possible to transmit a beacon, however I question weather or not an extraterestrial civilisation would be able to understand it.
I run seti@home because I think that it is an amazing idea to use lots of computers to process lots of data faster. I think that allowing the general public to be involved is a great idea because the knowledge of the exhistance of extraterestrial civilisations is knowledge that would belong to everyone and not just a select few in the scientific community. I believe that seti@home could be improved by making the application open source so that people who have some programming knowledge to change it and submit enhanced versions that may operate more efficiently.
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.
