I am a firewall server and my freetime hobbies include running SETI@home client among other cron jobs.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
My opinion is not important, but because I run SETI@home client, at least my owner must think that ET life exists. Humans have already transmitted several beacons for others to find, I think the next step should be to go meet the other guys :)
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.