I'm 51 years of age and am retired from the USAF. I served 20 years in the Security Police career field. I also served 2 years in aircraft maintenance working Fuel Cell on both the FB-111 bomber and KC-135 tanker.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I'm of the opinion that I have to see it to believe it. I personally don't have any concrete proof myself that life elsewhere does exist. But that's why we all are doing this anyway. To find the proof.
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.