Here's to shaking hands with little green men from Mars (unlikely) or somewhere a little farther!
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
To coin a phrase, "If life doesn't exist anywhere else, it is a terrible waste of a lot of space". Yes, I believe that life must exist out there beyond our planet.
Looking for life elsewhere is analogous to playing the lottery - If you play, you are not guaranteed to win, however, if you don't play, you are guaranteed to not win. If we don't search for ET, the only hope of finding them is if they find us first or if we run into them by accident.
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.