I have been a user of Seti@home since very early on. I am glad to be asked to answer on this. Since I first joined on August 30th 1999 I have donated 1.69 quintillion floating-point operations for the project. read more
Specific projects have even been spun off from SETI as secondary projects (Astropulse) to use the existing data to precisely locate and catalog these radio sources for further study. Some at the SETI project expect that given advances in computing power and the vast stretches of the sky still needing observation we might expect a significant result to come from the project in the next 10 to 15 years (2020-2225). read more