Why Don't They Do SETI?

SPACE.com ^ | may 8 2008 | Seth Shostak

[Bob]

Taxpayer dollars should not be spent on it.

If I'm not mistaken, taxpayer funding for SETI was discontinued several years ago. I switched over from SETI to Folding@Home some time back.

[Steve Van Doorn]

yeah you are a trekie :)

I like the old shows and they are not on TV anymore. I found many of them here and you can watch using a Flash player:
http://www.veoh.com/tv-shows/cbs-star-trek

[lesser_satan]

Maybe a massive radio antenna tasked to look for 'alien life' is really just a cover?

Yep. It's actually Karl Rove's weather/ earthquake machine.

[Quix]

Feel free to ping, if you wish, Dave.

Thanks, SISU

The best refutation of SETI is

at

HTTP://WWW.STANTONFRIEDMAN.COM

[Las Vegas Dave]

Pinging the list.

[Frank_Discussion]

I would be much more sanguine if they would quit looking at Ufology as it’s “competition”. Shostak is an over-educated, self-important dork, and tries (unsuccessfully) to stick it to UFO research all the time.

[Political Junkie Too]

It's because the aliens are already here and living in Remulak, a small town in France. They don't want to be exposed.

-PJ

[Quix]

What’s O.P.I.

???

sorry for my ignorance.

Blessings,

[Ramius]

Sure it might be a huge waste of money. But if there is a signal to be found, it would still be interesting to know about it. Even if the senders are long gone.

As money-wastes go there’s way bigger targets anyway.

[SunkenCiv]

I think they’re too busy building madrassas, imposing 30 hour work weeks, and buying up US gov’t securities. ;’)

[The SISU kid]

Of Possible Intrest...

8^)

[Quix]

Thanks.

Will check it out.

[Quix]

DOH!

Now I get it
!

Of
Possible
Interest

= OPI.

Wheeee.

Thanks.

[joebuck]

Interesting, the whole premise behind SETI is a wholesale rejection of Darwinist evolutionary theory. Wonder if they ever consider that?