Spending $100M not just to listen but to potentially message as well. Personally, I think messaging aliens has equal budgetary standing in these "Breakthrough Initiatives," else why would Breakthrough Message be given equal billing with Breakthrough Listen? You're not going to spend $50M studying whether or not a message should be sent. Actually sending one? Yes.
To: LibWhacker
Better to just listen for a long time.
2 posted on
07/20/2015 5:06:12 PM PDT by
cripplecreek
(Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
To: LibWhacker
Dear Aliens, Save us from Liberalism.... Please for the love of Grabthar’s Hammer get us off this damned planet infested with envious fools, we will be Galactic janitors if need be, just get us off this commie rock....
4 posted on
07/20/2015 5:25:08 PM PDT by
GraceG
(Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
To: LibWhacker
The assumption being there is intelligent life down here...
5 posted on
07/20/2015 5:26:21 PM PDT by
wastoute
(Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
To: LibWhacker
The distances are much too great for any conventional signals to be useful in any way.
Until we can move above the space/time dimension it is pointless.
6 posted on
07/20/2015 5:26:48 PM PDT by
rawcatslyentist
(Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,)
To: LibWhacker; windcliff
In before the alien guy pics...
To: LibWhacker
If they’re out there, why would they want to talk to us? They’d probably view us a primitive, dangerous, and of no interest.
11 posted on
07/20/2015 6:23:03 PM PDT by
Flick Lives
(One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
To: LibWhacker; All
13 posted on
07/20/2015 6:58:02 PM PDT by
Nifster
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