It is unlikely that they would fund evidence, even if there is life on other planets. As we have advanced, we’ve been going dark. We don’t shine our city lights in space as much as we used to and we are less dependent on radio waves as we have moved to moving all data through a closed internet system. Any advanced life will probably have gone dark even more than we have.
Or they may be communicating via quantum entanglement. Or maybe we were listening on AM and they were transmitting on FM(?)
“I do not believe this data because I do not want to”
There are also no such things as ghosts.
I’d argue that, as a planet, we haven’t gone ‘dark’ at all.
“we” as in the US and Europe, don’t shine our city lights because we’ve been green-guilted and white-privileged into going dark. To our detriment, as dark cities encourage crime.
But have you seen the fingerprint of China and greater Asia? Their urban areas are lit up like neon Christmas trees all night long! Which makes one wonder? Why are we ‘saving the night sky’ when 8.5billion other people aren’t? To signal how virtuous we are?
As to radio waves - back to the 9 billion people, every little town around the world now has a radio or tv station, licensed or not, most broadcasting 24 hours. Not to mention ham radio broadcasts, podcasts and internet. Even remote areas of the world have satellite links. That’s a whole lot more white noise than existed in 1950, when tv stations went off the air at midnight, there was no internet and ham operators were few and far between. There’s a peak right behind me that we jokingly call an alien base it has so many microwave receivers/repeaters. And then there’s skylink, which will theoretically enable internet from any point on earth and will quadruple bandwidth use. And militaries around the world with their own dedicated bands. We are a lot noisier, and brighter now than ever before.
We are a society that has spent trillions trying to disprove intelligent design. It’s time to put that hypothesis to bed.