I live in a small town in northern Ohio. I build residential homes for a living and have for five years now. I am new to SETI, but I like the idea and hope the program continues.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I think extraterestrial life may exist and I believe this program is how we will find out if it does. The only danger that I see is the ignorance of people with our whole "shoot first ask questions later" philosophy. If life was found,earth would erupt into a ball of panic, without really understanding what technology and other ideas we could miss out on we would try to destroy that life. I run SETI for the hope that we are not the only intelligent life out there.
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.