I am Alf...
Yes my first name is really Alf, and if this is no reason for searching for Alien Life Forms I dont' know.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I believe that there must be something out there and it would the greatest adventures to get contact to them. Although with the current technology a communication with a extraterrestrial is not possible. But science will find a way.
I run SETI at home because I always was interested in the SciFi stuff and SETI is a kind of mixture of SciFi and serious science. Beyond that it takes only a little for me but it could mean a lot for mankind...
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.