At first I thought the Screensaver was nothing more than a cool looking screensaver; until I was prompted to download a new unit for processing the data used to search for ET Activity.
I am in full support of searching for life in our universe, as there is absolutely no way that we are so unique, that we are the only living planet out of all the planets that spin round the billions of suns in our universe.
TIME is the only thing holding us back from finding our interstellar neighbours.
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.