Look for E. T. in Your Spare Time

There's a project called SETI@home that allows people to donate their personal computer's time to the the SETI project and it's looking for more volunteers: SETI (at) home looking for more volunteers.

I remember watching the movie Contact and thinking how cool Jodie Foster was listening on the headphones for signs of life 'out there.' I seem to remember the book Contact as being even better with more and different things to think about. It's very neat to think that individuals can contribute to this effort. There's still way too much data for even the large number of volunteers that they have now, but think about how easy it's going to be to process that data twenty years from now. With computers advancing every years, could we be making 'First Contact' in the next 20 years? It doesn't seem so crazy.