I am a history student that likes to drive into the converging scientific technoligies.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I think that Extraterrestrial life does exist. It has been recently proven so on asteroids. I also believe that intelligent life exists elsewhere, but they will be the ones to make contact with earth. They will do so when they feel we have progressed far enough into creating a better life for the citizens of this planet (we are far from this point).
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.