I'm a musician/programmer interested in how the two fuse together. Been working with the buggers for over 20 years now.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
1. Yes, and many many years after I am dead.
2. Humans have been doing that for the last hundred years or so. Let's just hope that we are still around when they get it.
3. It's a wonderful idea that has many applications.
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.