I'm a member of Geek Squad - a geek at heart. Got a fairly serious computer that's always on, so I might as well put it to some good use when idle. I've always been interested in this type of stuff.
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.
