Retired IT guy; lived mostly in central Virginia but have also lived in New England and Florida for work/military stuff.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I currently run the project on my home media server, which was idle much of the time. Other home computers have it installed to kick off if they have idle time. I do this in part to contribute to the scientific effort.
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.