I do deep space photography and follow certain comets which I post pictures of on a home page. http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/tricks46/myhomepage/photo.html?mtbrand=AOL_US and http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/tricks46/myhomepage/photo.html?mtbrand=AOL_US
I am the VP of the Arkansas Oklahoma Astronomical Society - http://www.vat13.com/aoasnews.htm
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
#1 - Yes I do but, possibly none that we would recognize or understand.
#2 - I beleive that the beacons are being sent.
#3 - I run the SETI program because we all need to help in our own way.
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.