I'm a 54 year old aerospace engineer living and working in Montreal. One of my main jobs is to prevent the kids from removing random wires from or inserting foodstuffs into the computer.
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.