I'm a 25 year old Reactor Operator in the US Navy. I run a small computer business out of my house, and have a couple computers always running SETIatHome. I've always been interested in the possibility of extraterrestrial life. There are simply too many stars out there with possible life sustaining planets that we can not be alone. I hope we find someone or they find us sometime in my lifetime (unless we already have and the government is just covering it up) :)
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.