I am a 26 yo. married software development engineer who is "taking some time off". I am also taking classes and looking for a new career.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I don't know if there's life out there, I'm not sure if we'll ever know. I think it's good we're looking for it, and I'm willing to allocate the CPU cycles I'm not using to the endeavor.
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.