I'm a 26 year old manager at a software company in Boulder, Colorado. I have been participating in the SETI project since 1999 - currently crunching under this account with a few friends.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I don't think we'll discover evidence of other civlizations in my lifetime - but it has got to start somewhere. Also I enjoy the competition and the challenge of pumping out ever more cobblestones :)
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.
