I do believe extraterrestrial life exsists. I believe that some of us know more than we can put out there. I believe they (extraterrestrials) will show themselves in the future.
Not sure if beacons should be sent out.
I have always been facinated with extraterrestrial life since I was a little girl. I might be the one to catch the signal.
I run Seti@home because I know there is much information to gain and funding isn't easy to get and that it is very expensive. I think this is an excellent program and will continue to help anyway that I can.
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.