Am an Air Force brat, born in (then) West Germany as the offspring of a U.S. serviceman & a Deutsche Fraulein. A chemical engineer by training, I sandwiched school around a stint in the Army. I worked in industry for a bit after grad school at Auburn & am currently employed as a professor of Chem Eng at neighboring Tuskegee University.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
E.T. exists; I can't imagine that Earth houses the only specks of life in the entire universe. I rather doubt that the SETI@home project will detect any sign of life. There's just too much area (volume rather) to cover. Eventually (within 100 years or so) we'll detect signs of life but face-to-face contact is thousands of years off (due to the FTL barrier never being broken). Hope I'm wrong; I'd like to see success in my lifetime.
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.
