Do I think aliens exist? Is the Pope A Catholic?
That said, I am involve with seti@home as an experiment in distributed computing as much as finding some clever moon bug that will give us the key to the universe and solve the ultimate question....why is New Coke?
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.