I work in IT systems support in the UK. I became a member of SETI because I thought it was a really good use of otherwise dormant computing power! Running Seti on a 2.5ghz AMD AthlonXP Barton with 768mb TwinMOS 3200 DDR. Also runs on my AMD K6/2-450 fileserver when idle.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
Who knows if extraterrestrial life exists, but I'm glad I'm part of the worldwide team that's trying to find out!
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.