I am a television producer/writer in the midwest. Since I create commercials and programs that are sent into the great void that is know as commercial television, it wasn't too much of a stretch to want to find signs of intelligence in the other great void.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
If life can exist on Earth in it's current state.....well...there certainly MUST be something else out there. We NEED to know that we're not alone....the human race needs the humbling experience to survive.
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.