[GOPJ]

We can't communicate with the animals and plants we evolved with - why would we be able to communicate with beings we hadn't evolved with?

Also, knowing how we see other living things - as pets or food - why wouldn't beings, if they were like us, see us the same way? It ain't Star Trek out there...

[RadioAstronomer]

We can't communicate with the animals and plants we evolved with - why would we be able to communicate with beings we hadn't evolved with?

SETI is not looking to communicate. All we are doing is looking for that narrowband carrier that indicates a non-natural origin.