I use seti, not because I think we will ever find an alien but because that data is usefull for beter understanding the universe, with their new program coming our the sensitivity of the program will widen and seti will be able to detect collapsing blackholes and other astronomical features. I believe that seti@home is responsible for the detection of several new pulsars as well. Space should be our goal, God knows this planet has gone to hell. A few more years and stepping outside will turn us into christmas turkeys with what is happening to our ozone layer...So I turn my cpu to work doing seti, not because of aliens but because it is the only distributed computing project that deals with space, our next home.
In battle Israel uses F-16's and big ass tanks, Palestine uses small children strapped to bombs. Which do you support?