I'm a 54 year old veteran of IT project management for seven Olympic Games (now retired).
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I am interested in the SETI project because, as Dr. Sagan said, "the discovery of another intelligent civilization would de-provincialize biology" and I believe that is the only way to bring humanity together. All people on Earth are more alike than they are different. We need to realize that.
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.