Home phone ET? We might as well send a signal. I think the brilliant Carl Sagan had a wonderful idea of transmitting the prime numbers up to, say 37 or so, so they would know that we can at least count. Would definitely show a smattering of intelligence on our part. And as far as danger, well...Christopher Columbus, Marco Polo, Scott, Admundsen, risked life and limb to find new things. There is always risk, but in this case it is one worth taking.

Why SETI@home? See above mentioned teenager. He found the address, so I started to run it. It is know running on an antiquated 400Mhz, a dual 350Mhz PIII Xeon, and a dual 1G PIII Xeon (doing one stream per 5 hours!). I think it is a phenomonal program, and well worth every processor nano-second invested. As many other profiles read, and I concur, why waste idle time? Not only that, perhaps we can do this again some other time to figure out problems such as pollution, new energy production, space flight trajectories, proceesing probe data (like Voyager, the little Mars toaster thing, etc.)

Suggestions: No, I think the SETI staff have all well in hand. Not only that, I wouldn't know enough to ask the right questions to make an intelligent query...kinda like the caveman and a car, more fascinated in the honk than the engine! (sell the sizzle, not the steak)

P.S. Hasn't the Enterprise already found all these pesky aliens? *g*