I'm 24 years old and live in Australia. I work for one of our State Government Departments as a Residential Care Officer. I spend a fare bit of my free time in front of my computers so I thought that some of that waisted time could be used to better our search for the unknown.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I do think that there is something else besides us out there. Hey "To quote a line from a movie" If we are the only life there is then the rest is an amazing amount of wasted space.
All quests have their benefits and their dangers so I really don't think about the negatives that may came from the human drive for knowledge.
No harm has ever come form making a phone call nor from an unanswered one so why not let others know that they aren’t alone. For all we know there is something somewhere asking all the same questions that we are asking.
I think that the Seti @ Home project is a large leap forward to getting participation from not only those locally but those globally and bringing together as a whole. Who knows, sometime down the track we may be doing this same thing inter-planetary.
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.
