David Woolley wrote:

In article <4004ec1b$1@news.barak.net.il>,
Gil Teva <gilteva@actcom.net.il> wrote:

It is a fact that for many years billions of dollars have been spent to try
to locate other civilizations, but without a success.

I think this is untrue.  SETI is done on a shoe string.  I'd be surprised
if more than US$ 50,000,000 had been spent on this (if you ignore the
opportunity cost of machines running S@H).  It might be as little as
US$ 20,000,000.

    But speaking of which, when some kid is busted for hacking they price the computer time at some outrageous rate. Were S@H to use those rates there has been a fantastic investment.