I am a computer science student a the University of Ã…lborg in denmark.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
Whether we will find ETL I do not know. That is not why I participate. I hope that this will inspire others to create similar projects in medical research. It seems like such a waste to just let all those computers around the world run on 30% power and not use those last 70% computational power. Most computers are used for writing and surfing the net. This often use very little of the computers resources.
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.