what might happen when we find it. Actually our problems begin when THEY find US... Even were we able to detect signs of intelligence out there we would have no way of commmunicating with them for perhaps hundreds of years, they on the other hand.... We now return to Grover's Mill NJ.
Well, if out own technological development cycles are a clue, andf it should be for there is a real type of evolution, and that is of ideas -- then the more techogically evolved a culture the more quiet its emission spectrum will be. Noise-less, tempest-class low.
SETI is bunk.