Yup—total waste of time.
No advanced alien race would be stupid enough to give away their location with radio signals.
Corollary 1: Humans are _not_ an advanced race—we are rock stupid!
Corollary 2: Humans love wasting money on insanely stupid projects like the one discussed here.
Corollary 3: Any advanced alien race that knew about us would hide themselves and observe us in ways we could not detect.
Corollary 4: They could be right in front of our noses and we wouldn’t know it.
(Example: We are right in front of ant’s noses but they have no clue about our nature, purpose, intent, or intelligence level—because they aren’t intelligent enough to figure out stuff that is right in front of them.)
No. I am just saying standard radio is to primitive for an advanced technology to continue using.
Telegraphs used to be out cutting edge communications tech. we no longer use it.
it is the same with aliens. They have an interstellar civilization, they need a fast than light communication system - and radio aint it.
I think SETI is barking up the wrong tree by focusing on radio.