SETI public: Quotes from Richard Factor in NGM SETI@Home article

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Richard Factor, president of an organization dedicated to the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life called the SETI League, in Little Ferry, New Jersey is pleased that SETI@home has the opportunity to look at these 150 areas, but agrees that the chances of finding ET on this outing are slim.
"Since they stated that these candidates are about what one would expect from a statistical analysis of receiver noise, I am not unduly optimistic," he said.
Factor is optimistic that chances of finding ET in the future are good, but he is not at all impressed by the 4,287,000-plus people who have downloaded the SETI@home screensaver.
"That's less than one tenth of one per cent of the Earth's population," he said. "I should like to think that SETI is far more important than this indicates."

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/03/0324_030324_seti.html

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