It is only logical that there are other forms of life in the universe. We should continue to send beacons into space. As the technology gets better, the beacons will go farther faster.
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.
