As a point of reference, SETI is not trying to find aliens speaking to us. SETI is trying to to find aliens speaking to EACH OTHER.
The Federal Government hasn’t paid for SETI in years. They do rent the arrays for other purposes.
I cannot believe that out of all the stars and planets we are all alone. Whether we are the smartest in the universe to have ever lived is the question.
God gave us the ability to worship him. Did beings somewhere else write their own Bible?
FALSE. I attended an astronomy conference once upon a time and one of the SETI crew was there. I asked him at what distance they could detect the signals generated by a planet like earth with their equipment. He honestly answered a couple of light years. I said then what's the point of looking futher away. He then answered that they based their search on the assumption that aliens were trying to communicate with us.
The Federal Government hasn’t paid for SETI in years.
So what? At one time it was taxpayers' hard earned dollars pouring down this idiotic rathole. And it has been heavily funded/subsidized by the taxpayers over the years. Who do you think paid for the radio telescope arrays that they use, eh? Plus there are state funds that were used recently - also taxpayers' hard earned dollars
I cannot believe that out of all the stars and planets we are all alone
So what? Who cares? You gonna go visit 'em? You want to visit supposedly intelligent beings who think totally different than us go to Greece.
God gave us the ability to worship him.
Again, what's this have to do with a waste of taxpayer funded resources.
The Drake equation is a joke. It postulates that a world has a 1/100 chance to survive evolution and become self-aware.
The chances of a single Polypeptide forming into an amino acid is 1 in 10^300 trillion trillion, and there are hundreds of thousands of such combinations required for the simplest life form. That makes the value plugged into the Drake equation something like 10^-300 Trillion Trillion Trillion+ , thousands of orders of magnitude off. Like other Freepers said, she would make more impact searching for common sense.