I am a student of Anthropology and Geology. I like to play paintball in my spare time and if there are intelligent creatures out there, I'm sure this is how they spend their leisure time, too.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I run this program for the same reason that everybody runs it. It has helped me in a more personal way to realize that life is very rare indeed.
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.