I'm from the Netherlands, 18 years old and still at school. a few of my interests are everything that has to do with SF and middelage.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I do think extraterrestrial life exists. I think we will discover the first civilization other than humans. Possible benefits could be that we'd could learn their culture and (if applicable) perhaps help each other like exchanging technology. Possible dangers could be that the first on could be hostile and unwilling to be diplomatic.
I run Seti@home because if there truly is extraterrestrial life then I'd really like to help these people.
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.