I'm Richard Vinluan from Manila, Philippines. You can call me R1 in short. I'm currently working at the Mapua Institute of Technology as a College Professor.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I believe that we are not alone in this universe because there is an enourmous space out there. The earth is just one tiny bit of planet compared to the size of the universe.
Our present technology is not that advance to discover extraterrestrial life. One such limitation of our technology is space travel. Man has to find a way to travel at the speed of light in order for us to travel at far distant places in space. However, although we cannot travel at the speed of light, radio signals can or electromagnetic waves can. This is even safer because we do not expose ourselves to the dangers inherent to space explorations.
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.