I am a dorky idjit! I work with space based location systems back on earth. We use these systems to control large earth moving machines as well as the layout and design of all types of engineering tasks.
What better place to map out the progress of civilization than to look at it from above!
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.