I am a 46 year old unemployed Systems Engineer living in El Paso, TX.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I think what was said in the movie "Contact" was a valid point; if we are the only ones in the universe, it seems like a wast of space...
I think it is a great study on the utilization networked computers to work in conjunction with one another on the same project, in essence making a massive super computer. Awesome.
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.