In sci.space.policy Jan Knutar <shadowjksp@yahoo.se> wrote:

Lou Scheffer wrote:

Why look for a signal that no one is
motivated to send?

It's impossible to extrapolate any potential ETI's motivations based on what
motivates humans.

As things stand, there are good reasons to not delibertaely put out beacons 
with the explicit intent of advertising our presence here. Such are not
hard to argue for - whetever these arguments would still hold in say 400
years is a different question. They might not. Or they might still, or 
we might no longer be around or capable of posting such. 

-- 
	Sander

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