What do we expect of SETI, though.
Subject: What do we expect of SETI, though.
From: mtomasik@zedat.fu-berlin.de (ToleranCIA)
Date: 29/11/2003, 00:21
Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti

Dear Setis!

TOPIC ONE

   "One million people gathered by hope ... leave their PCs on", I
like and support it.

   Nevertheless, I´ve been doing some research and calculations that
might be of interest to you:

   (1) Many claim that RF-activity on earth, e.g. TV broadcast, will
leave an inevitable trace to live on earth: This is not true! (Please
request references), but it it very unlikely that OUR signals will be
received beyond our solar system.

   (2) Some claim that very strong signals of ours will leave "our
backard": This is true for some military radar activities: So what,
they´ve never been heared for x-thousand years and I question their
activity for the next one or two 100 years. Then, they will be silent
again.

   So we keep quiet, in the long run. If you think of any intelligent
species in broadcasting - why and when should they become loud? Maybe
we´ve got a message when Israel moved out of Egypt? 3000 years ago.

   (3) NO CIVILIZATION EVER will make an effort to SEND OUT
INFORMATION FOR GENERATIONS! (Would we do?)

   What do we expect of SETI, though.

   Tolee!