SETI@Home is a scientific experiment that harnesses the power of hundreds of thousands of Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). You can participate by running a free program that downloads and analyzes radio telescope data. There is a small but captivating possibility that your computer will detect the faint murmur of a civilization beyond Earth.
I am running the SETI@Home client on a number of computers at our lab at Cardiff University and at home. View my personal statistics at the BOINCStats site. You might also want to visit the home page of the SETI Institute. The likelyhood of finding an intelligent civilisation may be small, but it is worth searching for it. However, I am convinced that earth is not the only planet in the universe with intelligent life. This is just too unlikely and life in general may be more common in the universe than initially expected. The real question is whether a civilisation can survive long enough to allow it to contact another one.
Seti@Home,http://www.langbein.org/frank/shadow/seti by Frank C Langbein [18/May/2008, 22:35].
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