I run SETI@home so that we can come into contact with other life in the universe, because if we are the only intelligent beings in the cosmos, then what a waste of space. I hope that we can eventually find what or who we are looking for in this project.
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.