same level or even far superior technology. Such message will deliver an invaluable piece of knowledge: it is possible to live through technological adolescence, avoid technological disaster or even clear out the differences among human beings or separate races and nationalities, religions and sexes and help ally the whole world together against the extraterrestrial intelligent beings. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) also take part in the search for life in space but with a different approach. They are trying to look for microbes instead of civilization. The whole idea started when NASA discovered that bacteria could survive in severe environments, even extraterrestrial ones. The incident happened when someone coughed on the circuit boards when Surveyor 3 was being prepared for lunch. The bacteria had been freeze-dried in space for three years on the moons surface but were quickly revived once back on Earth. (Dawson, 1999) The research for microbes in the extreme environment then began from here, on Earth. They study the surprising findings that creatures can live in about-boiling temperature in places like deep undersea sulfur vents, as well as at enormous pressure deep under the Earths surface, and in the frozen ice at the poles. (Fox, 1999) All these findings can help NASA stretch out and road map for the search for life. Not only scientists can enjoy the search for extraterrestrial intelligence life in space, even a normal person can participate in this wonderful event. Due to the lack of computer power to process the enormous reams of data collected by the radio telescope, SETI developed a program called SETI@home to solicit the help for computer users all over the world. Each computer each time will process small, 250-kilobyte chunks of data collected by the SETI program run by the University of California at Berkeley. SETI@home works like a screen saver. If your computer is idle for more th...
