Pacific Northwest amateur astronomer and mother of five.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I firmly believe the life exists on other planets. Where thos solar systems are...who knows. I believe we are still at least 50 years away from finding out.
As far as transmitting a beacon or having others find us...well mankind panics at the concept of something new and it will be rough at first.
I run SETI@home to help by having my computer be part of a larger system.
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.