Not that McDonough doesn t want to believe. In fact, McDonough said that he and most of his colleagues believe there is alien life elsewhere in the universe. There s a number of scientists doing SETI around the world and almost all of them believe that extraterrestrial life exists, but I don t know of any of them that believe they have been here. The SETI project, which no longer receives any government funding, is now sponsored by the Planetary Society and the SETI Institute. Project Phoenix, it s most well known endeavor, targets sun-like stars with the giant Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico.
Scientists sift through the static of space noise it receives looking for alien transmissions.
This screensaver software analyzes small chunks of the data from Arecibo while a computer is not in use. McDonough said he even supports the aims of the Disclosure Project. What we ll probably find out is there are a lot of Cold War aircraft and tanks in secret storage. But while the group s goals may be harmless, McDonough said that claiming the planet s environmental problems will be solved by alien technology is not. J. Foster Co.