I'm a Computer systems Engineer who strongly believes in the importance of listening, even out there.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
There has to be something out there, if not, it would be a terrible waste of space. We should be transmiting a beacon (perhaps prime numbers or another series)... who knows? perhaps somebody's listening....
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.