When I tell my friends and coworkers that I spend my spare computer time searching for space aliens, they usually look at me like *I* was an alien...
when I look at things in the world today, I'm not so sure that's a bad thing.
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.