I'm from Dunedin, New Zealand (originally from Invercargill).
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
Confident there is other life out there (might even be intelligent which is one-up on us!). When we discover other life (intelligent or otherwise) it should put our attitudes about life into perspective and create a more rational species out of us. I think SETI@home is our only current chance to find out if we are alone or not - after all, we won't know if we don't take the time to look!
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.