It would be sad if we were alone in the universe. While I doubt that most humans are ready to to discover they are not alone. I believe that that realization might unify the human race by demonstrating how small we realy are.
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.