I am an IT professional currently working in the Newspaper/Publishing industry. I am a little bit of an art collector, I love to garden and I love to travel around the US.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I do think that life exists elsewhere. It would be such an astounding improbability for what occured here on our planet to have not occured somewhere else. Are they trying to communicate with us? I hope so, and I hope they are trying to listen for us. We should all think about the "what information we should send". It is a societal thing, what do we want to say about all of us.
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.