My wife is very supportive of all my computing interests including this one.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
It's not a question of is something out there, its is there something intelligent out there. Honestly I doubt it, but thats just as good a reason to be doing this as the others.
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.