I am a computer field engineer working at airports in New England. My computer is normally on 24/7 and gets very bored. SETI@home is a great way to keep it active!
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
There is no doubt that intelligent extraterrestrial life exist! If we traveling through space a couple hundred years after discovering electricity, imagine what we will be doing 1000 years from now. Extraterrestrials may be 1000 or 10,000 years ahead of us and could already be here watching us grow in to space traveling beings.
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.