I am just your average astronomy/space nut. What am I participating in this? It's fun and interesting. Do I expect it will ever really find anything? Probably not. Do I think there is life out there besides us? Most certainly! How arrogant of us to think we are the only point of life in God's infinitely wonderful creation!
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.