As a corollary, an intelligent ET would be smarter than to announce it's existence unless it knew it were the superior species. So if the SETI folks finally get an intelligible signal it like will be a "terms of surrender" demand message. So the SETI crowd, who believe that they will eventually get a message from above, should logically be the biggest human space travel and military spending advocates. The fact that they are not shows that they are either liars or fools.
So if the SETI folks finally get an intelligible signal... They're too busy squabbling right now to pay attention to it.
At least the S@H people are, for the past week.
Check out any of threads at http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_forum.php?id=10
with subject words as crunc3r, on strike, tony, or words meaning immature, apology, etc.
In a nutshell, an apparently people-skills-challenged mod publicly accused a highly regarded volunteer of "cheating"
on the amount of "work" claimed by 2 of 20 pcs that look for ET.