I'm a freshman (technically a sophomore) at Texas A&M studying Computer Science.
I'm running Linux (Mandrake 8.0) on a 1GHz Pentium 3 (which used to be cool... ;)
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I think aliens exist, but I don't believe we've ever been visited and it is highly unlikely we will ever be able to effectively communicate with any. Can you imagine carrying on a conversation when it takes centuries for each response? :)
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.