I for one do believe that there is extraterrestrial life. The question of the inteligence of that life remains the question that we are looking to answer.
I have chosen to run SETI@home for the simple reason that when my laptop has down time while plugged in at home or work it might as well be doing something, it cost me enough so it better start working 24/7!
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.