From Australia, been crunching on SETI@Home packets since 1999 and the classic ol screen saver version :) (Pre-BOINC).
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
1. To contribute to the largest distrubuted processing project on earth and also to advance science.
2. I think there is life in our galaxy other than our own. I'll claim my piece when they land and declare us fit to be neighbours ;)
3. Nil :)
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.