I'm a 22 year old French guy, a particle physics student in the progress of getting his master's degree. Hopefully I'll start working on my PhD thesis in a few months.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I've no clue when it comes to extra-terrestrial life or its degree of intelligence, but this experiment is worthwhile anyway - even if we never make contact, the project's impact on today's science is significant.
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.