I'm a retired paintshop foreman. I've been married to Wynn for 31 years, we have four lads aged from 27yrs to 30yrs. David my eldest got me into Seti@home.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
1. We simply cannot be the only form of life. Another world or galaxy will have some form of carbon based lifesorce.
2. We should try to communicate with other world lifesorce's we and they might learn somthing even if it is to coexist, we may need to relocate and vise versa at some point in time.
3. I run Seti@home while my computer is idle, if it consumes energy it might as well be doing somthing worthwhile.
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.