“Where are they?” (absence of evidence is not evidence of absence)

Space.. The final frontier I have been involved in the Seti@home program since 1999: so far without any results. For those who have no idea what SETI is: it is an acronym for the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence and SETI@home (“SETI at home”) is a grid computing (distributed computing in the project’s own terminology) project using Internet-connected computers, hosted by the Space Sciences Laboratory, at the University of California, Berkeley, in the United States. The purpose of SETI@home is to analyze data incoming from the Arecibo radio telescope (located in Puerto Rico), searching for possible evidence of radio transmissions from […]