People contribute their computer time to these projects without expectation of any monetary reward, rather for the satisfaction of knowing they contributed to the achievement of the greatest quest in the scientific world.

ahh yes ... just curious and not expecting monetary reward. its wasting energy and finding ET is the reward. everyone knew that already.

Not sure it is wise to tell people on this forum, most of whom are in it for the science, that they are wasting energy. That may be your view but it would be inflammatory to others. If you want to earn money off of crunching, that's fine, but don't insult the investment the rest of us have made by choice because we don't do it for the money.

People contribute their computer time to these projects without expectation of any monetary reward, rather for the satisfaction of knowing they contributed to the achievement of the greatest quest in the scientific world.