I'm an engineering student at Loughborough University in the UK.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
Extraterrestial life must exist someware in the Universe and certianly in our galaxy. I believe that the best hope for mankind to discover ET is through SETI but I also feel that the chance of us actually finding a definate signal is quite remote just due to the shear size of the task.
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.