I like giving back to projects and joined Seti Classic back in the day and since then never stopped. I currently have a network of computers with most dedicated to almost purely to BoiNC. I hope to expand more in the future.
Alien life has to exist. There is bateria on Mars right. So there has to be complex life somewhere. Even if you believe religion, that a god created everyone, would you not beleive that God didn't create someone else where in the universe. So this is about finding that out.
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.