I am a retired Electronic Warfare Engineering Technologist and sub section Manager, spending all my life working for the navy in and out of uniform.
Presently 54 years old and getting younger every day.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
As a practical man one can not be so vain as to think that out of all the universes out there is only occuppied by man as we know it.
We should transmit a beacon as we are an exploring animal. We should send a brief history of our existance in graphical form with a sidebar of digital (basic) information.
I run to seti to help, why waste the computing power to play games or a useless screen saver
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.