Just another speck in the cosmos, doing his part for the collective good...
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
You could entice more people to help with the project if you had a better graphical interface and screensaver. By better I mean more visually stimulating, perhaps with identifiable milestones and/or a realtime graphic in layman's speak.
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.