I'm TQ, I live in Oregon. I'm only here for the glory of being the person that single-handedly discovers ETI. ;)
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I think it's fascinating that we could have discovered ETI already, but just haven't processed the data yet. I got a gaming computer that has a lot of computing power that's being wasted when I'm just browsing the internet or watching Netflix, so I figured I'd use it for SETI@home.
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.