i am a s/w engineer in sydney. some nights my suse workstation crunches seti data when i go home.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
i believe that when the aliens come to take over the planet those who have participated in seti@home will be made kings of advanced alien technology virtual universes and those who have not will be made slaves; forced to work 18 hour days in mines deep beneath the crust of europa.
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.