I've just connected my new beefy laptop so I'm hoping that my average work unit CPU time will start to fall... :-)
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I believe that it's very unlikely that our planet is the only one on which life has evolved. It's likely that some of those planets where life has evolved have developed intelligence of a similar level to our own (at least!)
I don't know whether we will make contact within my lifetime, but if we do it would be nice to think that I played a small part in that. :-)
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.