I am William Rhoades. I am 67 years old and a retired city mail carrier. Interested in all science and especially space. Got started with SETI@home in June 1999 while it was still Beta and have just let it do its thing in background ever since.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I think almost certainly that Extraterrestrial life exists in some form or another. Intellegent and otherwise. Think possibilites of intellegent life is that it may or may not comunicate as we do so we are probably not on right form of communication to find them. Sure that life forms exist and probably in near vicinity of earth. Nearby stars etc. But may be intellegent life is spread so thinly that we wont find it easily. And some of it we may not want to find. Some we may benefit from. May be we are the type they dont want to find looking at our history of war and destruction. But its worth a try. Lot we could learn from both intellegent and unintellegent life so why not.
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.
