I'm a systems engineer (hardware design and software development), live on about 6 acres in Georgia, am engaged to Valerie, and have been very enthusiastic about space exploration and the search for life elsewhere in the universe.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I think SETI and SETI@home are both great ideas. SETI@home is a fantastic example of how distributed processing and use of otherwise wasted resources can be creatively used.
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.