I'm a consultant at PC-WARE Danmark A/S doing Software Asset Management for our customers.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
They might exist right now on the other side of the galaxy but it will take a while before we will hear anything from them...
Still I think it is just as inportant as finding Dinosaur bones in the ground. We all like to know what happened to other species on other planets even though they're not psychically there anymore...
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.