I'm 41 and former physicist turned software analyst. Hobbies include mountain biking, running marathons and playing guitar.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
There isn't any doubt that intelligent life exists on other planets. The real question is why we have not detected any signals from other worlds. I suspect the answers to that question may yield the deepest insights yet into not space, but ourselves, our future and the nature of being sentient.
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.