Originally Posted by
Steve Bohlen
Granted, this is coming from a wannabe scientist, but...
The discovery of any new celestial object allows humans to better understand how the universe was created and is put together. There could be something very special about these new pulsars that we haven't seen before, which in turn may lead to new knowledge about the universe.
Einstein@Home also (mainly) searches for gravitational waves which, according to Einstein, must exist. Again, finding such waves would help us to understand the universe a little bit better than we do now.
Any project that could help us understand how we all got here is an important one in my book.