I recently came across the SETI Institute in my wanderings across the internet and I am amazed that I have never heard of this organization. Apparently SETI pulled the colinders off the heads of curious minded sci-fi junkies, locked them together in a room, and came up with a method to explore, understand, and explain universal life… i.e. Dick, Sally, and the Big Giant Head.

Of course my curious, colinder-covered head, naturally asked, "Have they found that alien life forms are playing puppetmaster by using Ipodian mind control to inevitably enslave us and infiltrate the global economy while forcing us to listen to Britney Spears "I’m a Slave 4 U" for all eternity?" The possibilities abound, yet, I found that nothing has yet been verified by SETI’s research.

I suspect that my interest in SETI will earn me such dubious distinctions as "the weirdo upstairs who decorates with wire coathangers and foil", but alas, I scoff at those naysayers and will one day awake and step outside my front door to find a blue Tardis parked next to my Honda. You too can realize your dreams of being probed by alien life forms by aiding the search for extraterrestrial life through SETI@Home. Use your personal computer for more than googling William Shatner’s greatest hits and visiting Star Trek fansites. Utilize your computer’s idle time to take part in a supercomputer system that uses radio telescopes to listen for narrow-bandwidth radio signals from space in order to prove the existence of extraterrestrial technology.

Should you feel as though you are far too intelligent to fall for the mythology of "intelligent extraterrestrial life", there are other worthwhile projects that you too can participate in (but beware, when the aliens come, I’m telling them that you didn’t believe and then you won’t get to join us for dinner at Outback Steakhouse… unless of course, you are the main course).