Senior Engineer at von Hoerner - System GmbH, a company that built scientific space born instruments since 1971.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
It would be very surprising if we were alone in the universe. I also think it may put the human perspective in a more realistic context if we discovered others - forcing us to re-think our currently very self-centered view of the universe.
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.