I'm a student at University of Illinois studying psychology.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I think Seti@Home is a neat idea, and I leave the program running in the background cause it doesn't use up too many resources. I do find it rather perplexing that nothing has been found yet, even after millions of computer years. Either these E.T.'s are a really shy bunch, or we're doing something wrong.
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.