I'm a 49 years old application developer from Hannover, Germany.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I think it's a great idea to search for signs of extraterrestrial life. Much better than to waste money to destroy terrestrial life. SETI@home seems to be one of the projects which shows that human beings are basicly able to work together and to share. One of the few lights in this dark times.
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.