More life up there than down here
I was reading on a messageboard today and someone started a thread about the old SETI@home project. I used to run it but after a plague of corrupt hard drives over the years I eventually stopped reinstalling it and went without screen savers altogether.
Today, I figured, 'what the hey?' and downloaded the program. There hasn't been much of an outcome yet after years of running the project but it's like the lottery... you only have to win once and all is forgotten. The SETI@home website still claims 2 million hits a day (although the news page hasn't been updated since last May). You never know when they'll come across something.
I also have the idea for a sci-fi short story so I figured this would help put me in the mood to write it.
