I run seti @ home because I believe that a project like this is very important. We need to know if there's life out there. To know that we arent alone will be more important than anything else we have ever found out about the universe.
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.