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I think the likelihood we will discover something is fairly remote. After all, mankind has only spent 5000 years staring at the skies, 500 years understanding what is in the skies, 50 years of being able to examine the skies in detail and 5 years with the processing power to analyse the data from the skies. So in a universe billions of years old that's a pretty tiny window. But it's still an opportunity to explore our place in the universe, as well as being a practical chance to experiment and develop with distributed computing. After all, the most important benefits arising from going to the moon was not going to the moon.
Broadly I would say there is other life out there but we're not going to meet them. It's hard to imagine a civilisation lasting for more than few thousand years so when you look at the distances between solar systems, civilisations could be rising and falling all the time and none of them would ever coincide.
However, despite the vast improbability of ever being involved in a press conference with the US President and United Nations Secretary-General ("and if not for Geoff's Armada 1560D, we would never have made this important discovery"), Seti@home is a noble pursuit that allows humble geeks like myself to contribute to something bigger than anything that has ever been attempted before.
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