I am orignally from NJ and have lived in Texas for the last 22 years. I am over 50 and work for a fortune 100 company in Human Resource Management.
I am a true believer that we are not alone in the universe. It is my opinion that only an egocentrist would believe that Earth is the only place where life has developed amongst the billions of planets that are out there.
I believe the project is necessary if we are to find the evidence to prove that we are not alone.
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.