I like the Seti project since the beginning.
Big respect to the founders of Seti.
My statement:
There's life somewhere in the space for sure,
but with the technology on earth we can't reach them.
Not yet!
The minimum we can do is seaching for them with Seti.
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.