I'm 23 years old and live in Aurora Maine. I have been a part of the seti@home program since I first heard about it in highschool. Some people ask me why I even bother, my response is to them: "what if?" You can never know for sure if and when we might recieve the single most important signal of all mankind, the one that would prove without dopubt the existence of extra-terrestrial entities. Being a part of that search is incredible and awe inspiring.
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.