I am an IT professional and a back yard Astronomer.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
Yes, it is a matter of time before we discover the truth that there is other life in the Universe. We should transmit a signal so by the time a less developed world discovers radio they will not have to wait as long as we are to discover other life in the universe. I also think that we have been visited and the technology that they use allows them to cloak their signals. keep SETI@home Rolling.
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.