I'm a 42 year old software engineer, working for a Railway Signalling company based in Australia. I have spent most of my working career travelling around the world and realise what a small planet we live on.
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.