I'm Maarten and I live in Breda (The Netherlands). In my free time I work in a Observatory. I have a 'big' internet site about astronomy: http://www.amateursterrekunde.nl it is almost in English
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
1. I think so. How we discover it? I don't know, maybe the find us.
2. I don't think so, you don't know what you find.
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