SETI....Worthless rubbish OR Worth Trying Anyway

Keith - thats a bit of a mouthful even for you

as I said above

the likelihood of us co-existing in the same timeframe / spaceframe will be very small.

amounts to the same thing.

Exactly, Calibos could not have said it better myself.... On the question of finding carbon based, bi-pedal life forms transmitting in the window of oppertunity i.e. they are (or have) transmitted and we are listening.....I honestly believe we have a greater chance of discovering a "Unicorn" off world, than finding anything resembling a humanoid. To put it another way, if 50 people on earth were asked to make a pot of soup of thier choice: not one would taste the same. They would however have some things in common (more than one would produce tomato soup!) but in that senario all participants are using the same chemistry on the same world. on other worlds with different chemistry soup would not exist.....or we would not recognise it as soup. One comet more or less in earths early history and its primordial seas and we would probably not be here to chop the tomatos... :idea: :roll: