(Area of the sky that I'm currently scanning)
For awhile now, my screensaver has been the SETI screen saver. Most of the geeks that download this screen saver are men in the 20-39 age range, so I thought I'd meet some nice single men that way... LMFAO, NOT! Actually, I joined the SETI program because I really admired Carl Sagan, I've enjoyed his books and his philosophy as a whole. Also, when given the chance to find intelligence outside of the blogoshere, politics and say...the WORLD, its only reasonable to assume that the final frontier would be the place to investigate this option. We'd be arrogant to assume, as some have, that we are alone in our Universe: although, "billions and billions" of galaxy's--not unlike our own float above our heads. Yes, their pretty and sparkly, I dig all that, but what if one of them little swirly things had a world that resembles our own? I'm 765 hours into the search for Intelligence life and I've yet to find any, but I'm hopeful.
"SETI@home actually consists of two parts: an "application" and a "screensaver". The application does all the work: it downloads blocks of data through the Internet, performs the number crunching on that data (looking for orderly patterns that might be artificial), returns the results, and gets another block of data."
I help the SETI program by scanning previously recorded files: its fun, its colorful and it keeps me humble.
