I joined Mensa in 1995 and the Mensa SETI group in May, 1999. I'm a retired medical technologist from Mississippi, USA.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I think it's very unlikely that Earth is the ONLY location of sentient life in the Universe. I support the effort to locate other life, or to assist them in locating us. The first information we should send is "We are here; we are friendly." I run SETI@home for the useful purpose of doing my part in a worthwhile distributed computing effort and for the entertainment value of watching my personal standing as compared with my team and with the entire group of more than 5 million other participants.
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.
