Born in 1970 I have grown up with Captain Future and other SCI-FI's.
I have to admit I like SCI-FI, in fact I am a big Battletech fan :).
Since I got a degree in computer science I cant be a complete lunatic, can I?
:-)
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
Actually I dont know if there are any alien liveforms out there but on the other hand space is so vast that there is a good chance that there is.
The question would be: will we ever find them or will they ever find us?
It could well very be that there is live out there put it is so far away that there is no chance we will "get in touch" (will a shark near Florida ever know that there is a whale near Japan?)
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