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Listening for Aliens with SETI at Home

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People have been looking for extraterrestrials for years, but scientists at the SETI project are listening. Volunteers assist in the search through a project called SETI At Home. By spreading the computing power across millions of home computers, the data from telescopes can be processed at 100 trillion floating point calculations a second.

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