23 year old tech-support geek. I run Seti@home while watching The X-Files at work.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I do think ET life exists. I think with the number of galaxies and planets out there something else has to exist. I don't know if SETI will discover it or not, but it certainly won't hurt, and it's a valiant effort on our part. I think we should transmit a beacon. Why wouldn't we? As for what info to send, I'll leave that up to the experts.
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.