SETI....Worthless rubbish OR Worth Trying Anyway

take me to your leader............

I know we will succeed. Definatly!

Its only a matter of time, That is the bit thats hard to measure.

Mankind has spent 2000 years following a guy they called the son of god.

A God that there is no tangible evidence of his existance appart from human beleaf and here say.

I dont think we will ever stop looking at the stars and listening to what radio waves are coming from them.

Many of todays telescopes and satalites are looking at parts of the electromagnetic spectrum that we cant see in visible light anyway. They doctor the picture so we can see it .

seti@home is a noble quest that mankind is attempting. Its our feebal attempt to listen for life. life that is very precious. Read the first post in this thread and come and join my team.

I know we will succeed. Definatly!

Its only a matter of time, That is the bit thats hard to measure.

With Arecebo probably gone in the next few years, what other technology is SETI using or does it propose to use?

Do you see SETI going on ice until that technology and funding becomes available?

Bart makes a good point - I understand that SETI is looking at small portions of the sky at very narrow frequencies - and it isn't 24/7 coverage. Perhaps ETI signals are there - but we've missed them because we were looking in the wrong place at the wrong time at the wrong frequency.

Technically, perhaps we're not ready to discover ETI. Morover, perhaps we're not socially ready to discover ETI...

You may be right. In many parts of this world of ours there are some folks who aren't ready to live with humans who behave or think a little differently. Imagine the trouble and strife that there'd be if they had to deal with aliens!

There is a down side to looking for E.Ts if and when we do make contact we mightn’t like what we find. There is a school of thought out there that we’d be better off keeping or heads down and wait a few more centuries before announcing our self’s. Remember "V"

take me to your leader............

bertie would be a bad example of humankind .