I live in the Kansas City area, retired, 64; I am an amateur radio operator and have been using computers since before the Internet was established.
I am excited about hearing signals from the unknown reaches of space and fully expect that one day a user will process the right set of data pointing to a hopeful source.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I most definitely think that life exists out there somewhere and that SETI will one day uncover an intelligent set of signals. I foresee no dangers as long as aliens don't personally visit us because we would surely attempt to kill them. I often wonder if they have been this way before and have set up a beacon warning others that this region of space is deadly.
We should probably transmit some beacon periodically and then establish a repository of the information in a secure place that future historians can use to remember when and what we sent.
I feel that using my unused processing power (the majority of it, I'm sure) is a useful project and the cost to me is absolutely nothing.
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.
