For a runner, 42 kilometres and 195 metres is quite a distance. On the scale of the universe 150 million kilometres means nothing, light may travel it within 8 minutes.
On a galactic scale our lives mean nothing. We live in a small world, maybe it would benefit from the knowledge that there are others out there who share our fate...
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.
