From the Portland/Vancouver area; Professor of biological anthropology and forensic anthropologist with the Medical Examiner Division of the Oregon State Police.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I think the law of probabilities dictates that there is intelligent life out there somewhere. Trainsmitting into space and identifying where we are might be a double edged sword, depending on the nature of other intelligent life, but it is a chance worth taking to learn if there are others out there. I run Seti@home because I believe in the project and the prospect of finding evidence of other intelligent life in the universe is exciting.
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.
