I am a computer department manager and a pilot in San Jose California. I have been running SETI@HOME for several years on different computers.
I am 35 years old, married and have one child.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I do not know if extraterrestrial life exists. I hope that it does because the universe is vast and there is alot of "stuff" out there. If there is no life elsewhere then it seems like an awful waste.
Should humans transmit a beacon? I don't think so. Since we currently have no hard evidence of life existing elsewhere in the universe it would be a waste of resources to transmit a beacon. Besides, we are transmitting a beacon of sorts with ever rerun of I love Lucy.
I run SETI@home because I think it is a worthwhile endevour. We need to know if life exists somewhere else. One day the Human race will need to leave this planet/solar system if we are going to survive (the Sun will eventually burn out) and it would be nice to know if anyone else is out there before we make the trip.
My suggestion for SETI@home would be to give me more information about the analysis of the packets I work on. I would like to know more information about what my computer is doing. The graphics are nice but they don't tell me anything.
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.
