I am not sure how I heard about Seti. I think I first heard about the project on the Discovery Channel. I run Seti@home on my PC because it give my pc something to do while I am at work.
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.
