I'm a retired machine tool engineer from the Midwest USA where I had worked for the past 45 years. One of my hobbies is stargazing with my telescope and letting my grand children look through it.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I don't know if all this effort by so many people will ever produce any results, but if E.T. is out there, we will find him. When I found out about SETI back in 2000 I signed up. I don't mind sharing my computer time to look for E.T.
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.
