I am a professional Internet and Security analyst currently working as Internet Team Leader / Quality Assurance and Corporate Consultant regarding Internet Business Promotion and Online Marketing.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
1. I run SETI@home because it doesn't bother me and even if 1 or 2 computers are not very much processing power it could make a difference on a larger scale, for the sake of science.
2. A good initiative, I would like to see many other similar distributed computing projects in the near future.
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.