[Smokin' Joe]

There's plenty of wishful thinkers with cash out there who I'm sure are more than willing to foot the bill for what is in reality an enormous waste of time.

Yep.

Consider, too, what intelligent life would want to attempt communications with a species which radiates the sort of crap that has overwhelmingly taken up our broadcast bandwidth for the past thirty years?

[KarlInOhio]

What if the first thing we receive is the alien equivalent of "Survivor: Alpha Centauri"?