I'm a geologist working at a university in upstate New York.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I first heard about SETI@home while talking with Frank Drake.
I think SETI@home is a wonderful idea. What a great way to help a very cool project that doesn't get all the funding it deserves. Can you believe the success of this thing? I don't know if ET is out there or not, but I certainly don't mind lending my spare CPU time looking. You never know if you don't look, right? I think the odds for ET life are quite high, although the chances of us detecting it are slim to none. We've been transmitting signals of various kinds for quite a while now. Why should we be the only ones?
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.
