I am middle aged and live at the New Jersey Shore.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
1. I strongly support SETI and believe we will one day discover an alien signal.
2. We should not directly send any signals. Maybe I'm paranoid and have seen too many Sci Fi movies.
3. I run SETI@home to help locate an alien signal. SETI should send tweaks to improve the performance time of each packet and have various versions to support 1 or 2 processors and an optimized version for Windows XP.
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.