Alien Contact?

When the Internet went public in the 1990’s the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) project asked the public to use their personal computers to help process the immense amount of data they were downloading with their radio telescope. I signed up and participated for years.

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So far, we’re still waiting to hear from ET.

I grew up in the mid-20th century in the golden age of science fiction and was…