I am uneasy about humanity's isolation and existence in one biosphere. We are so far from being able to continue our existence were something catastrophic to happen to earth. Anything which brings us closer to emigrating into space is of interest to me, and I include SETI among them.
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.
