Just a community college student hoping to go to UCLA in the computer science field. I think that making contact with beings from other worlds is one of the most critical aspect of the human race continuing to thrive. They probably would have solutions to problems that we are struggling with, and have already ran through a lot of the crisises we are currently experiencing.
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.
