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I am donating my computers' time so that those who search for ETI will not have the excuse that "we'd be able to find ETI if we only had enough compute power." I believe the SETI to be a complete waste of time based on the ridiculously small chances that life anywhere would exist at a technological level close enough to ours that they would a) be able to communicate with anyone, b) want to communicate with anyone, c) use a medium as naively simple as what we're searching, and d) communicate in a way that we'd be able to ferret out of the background noise using 18th century mathematics.
Consider: a mere two hundred years ago, we couldn't even listen, much less "speak" to the cosmos. Four hundred years ago, we wouldn't have been able to apply the methods of discrimination we're using now. 50 years ago, most of the world's computing power was less than that on the $2000 laptop I'm using to type this message.
What do you really think the chances are? Forget even the basic philosophical questions about the ubiquity of life.
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