I'm an engineer who can't stand the thought of letting my cpu cycles go to waste. Plus I can use my slow performance to justify new computer purchases to my wife.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
1. Does extraterrestrial life exist? Maybe. My mother-in-law definitely believes so (ever since she met me). I suspect that the first proven extraterrestrial life will be when humans go extraterrestrial...
2. Should we send a beacon? Probably not...
3. Why run SETI? Don't let those clock cycles go to waste!
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.
