Just another geek with too much processor on my hands, I'm afraid.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I don't think we're going to find extraterrestrial life anytime soon - until we're ready to commit some significant of the tremendous intelligence on this planet to searching space (and more, to going there ourselves), we won't have an answer unless we get lucky.
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.