I am interested in astronomy and write science fiction. I just got my first telescope and it has been magical!
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
With such a vast universe (or multiverse) there must be other intelligent life. I think it is our duty to seek it out. I think it is wonderful that this program has been made public, one, so that the job can get done faster and two, so that people like myself who would otherwise have no availability to radio astronomy can get involved.
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.