Hello from Houston, Texas. It's great being part of the SETI effort. There are just too many unknowns to rule out the possibility of ET life. I'm sure that one day all will be known to us, but in the meantime, it's fun to explore.
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.