Mike: "...50 very different worthwhile projects..."
Interesting that SETI@Home still has the lions share of users (over 3,000,000). Well, yes, it was the first on the scene - but could there be more to it than that?
Its certainly the most popular, probably always will be. Since Seti only searches for intelligent life, it fufills Mankinds basic instinct to believe that he is not alone.
We dont like to be alone as indviduals, so we bond into groups, clubs and societys.
Collectively we inhabit Earth, and have become very aware that we are the only intelligent planet circling in our Solar system.
We have become resigned to this.
But to be alone in the Galaxy, or worse, to be alone in the Universe....could drive Mankind into the depths of despair, trying to answer the question, Why?
Seti, has become the modern Messiah. "We dont know when, we dont know how, but to search and believe....will save our sanity"
