Hark the Herald Aliens sing!

Glory to the new found thing

Peace on Earth, and up there in Space too

Seti@Home analysed the signals, that's me and that's you.

From a time before the Earth was writ

Communiqués were flying via byte and bit

Messages, in unimagined forms and types

Beamed and leaked and lost and piped.

Aeons later, on this pale blue dot

Consciousness emerged, how and why we know not

Intelligence developed, and through curiosity

We started asking questions such as: Who Are We?

Hark the Herald Aliens sing!

Glory to the new found thing

Peace on Earth, and up there in Space too

Seti@Home analysed the signals, that's me and that's you.

Cocconi, Morrison, Shlovskii and Sagan

Kardashev, Clarke, Drake and Dyson

And others, far too many to adequately mention

Developed the techniques and ideas to answer the question.

Are We Alone or is there more to find out?

There can only be one way to remove any doubt

Make the effort, in the best ways we know as yet

Such as listen and study the incoming data set.

Hark the Herald Aliens sing!

Glory to the new found thing

Peace on Earth, and up there in Space too

Seti@Home analysed the signals, that's me and that's you.

Fast Fourier Transforms and other mathematical ilk

The kinds of things for which computers were built

Networked together under the aegis of BOINC

Supercomputing power almost beyond what we can think

Signals from telescopes half way around the Earth

Sent to our computers of which there's no dearth

For this is the mechanism by which our PC's crunch

Crunching numbers, with no need to stop for breakfast or lunch.

Hark the Herald Aliens sing!

Glory to the new found thing

Peace on Earth, and up there in Space too

Seti@Home analysed the signals, that's me and that's you.

Millions of people from each and every nation

At one time or another plugged in their computer station

To search the skies for the return of the WOW!

Creating a new paradigm, and creating it now.

Looking for Gaussians, Triplets, Pulses and more

Looking for the signs that we're all searching for

Are We Alone and how would we know

Join the search and perhaps the answers you'll show.

Hark the Herald the Aliens sing!

The telltale signs of their broadcasts, a wondrous thing

Are We Alone and how would we know

Join Seti@Home and perhaps the answers you'll show.

Are We Alone and how would we know

Join Seti@Home and perhaps the answers you'll show.

Kahir Ullah (aka kinhull) , 20th January 2007