We are from Crystal, Minnesota, USA. We got started doing this from watching the movie Contact with Jodie Foster, and also from a write up in the local newspaper. Hopefully we will someday find E.T.
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.