I am a 31yo musician based in the UK, currently studying for a masters degree in music technology. Have had a lifelong interest in astronomy and (amongst other things!) have studied astronomy and planetary geology at university in the dim and distant past.
I am running SETI@home for obvious reasons - why WOULDN`T you run it?!! Long shots are usually where the biggest advancements in science are made. After all, the alternative is we stay in our cave and just poke our noses out once in a while.
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.