Rich <someone@somewhere.com> wrote in message news:<409017FF.6070801@somewhere.com>...

Some expect it to work, but many,
myself included, think even negative evidence
worth having. We'll know what ain't there at
least.

Ditto: I _expect_ seti@home to fail to find anything, but still think
that not finding anything would be a useful enough result to justify
the thousands of data blocks I've processed for them. At least we'll
know that aliens with big non-directional radio transmitters are rare.

    Mark