Good points. You might also have mentioned that those college students are
present and future taxpayers as well.
SETI is a good project, and I support it totally, but it's not everything
as concerns universities, either.
Ablemonk
>
> well, those college students that are using the internet bandwidth for
> whatever are also paying the tuition that helps to keep our SETI servers
> up, no? i mean, we think them playing games or d/ling warez is a "waste,"
> but when we tell them they cannot do that b/c we are searching for ET,
what
> kind of response would you expect? there are more and more distributed
> computing projects, SETI was the first. for instance, folding@home, which
> is looking for cures for cancer. i am wary to go along and d/l that
client
> b/c i am not sure how the information might be used, ie. using my computer
> and then going out and making a profit off it...
>
> my two cents. :-)
>
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