Yes, there is life outside, too much waste of space if not ;-)
Is there any intelligence outside, hmmm... its heavy to find it on earth....
Yes lets send a message - small amount of prime-numbers. easy to decode. What are we looking for? Thats what we have to send - easy.....
SETI is a practical way of checking out system-performance without wasting CPU power and also does a permanent system-stability test. A good side-effect for helping to serve some CPU-time
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.
