In infinite wisdom Fluatist answered:

Very very minded views.

1. I rather the Government spend my tax dollars on finding ET

>    then making war.

How much debt are you willing to leave to your children to search
for SETI?

2. Radio signlas spread, can be decayed or enhanced by spacial

>    anomalies. We don't knw enough about space to say otherwise,
>    it's all guesses.

I guess so.

3. If a signal out there we can fidn it, but there is a need for

>    more advanced systems in detecting them.

Repeat every thirty years or so when you look for yet more funding.

4. Alien tax dollars? WHo ever siad they have that sort of economy.

Who says they don't?  :-)

Maybe we are the only narrow minded race of beings.

As compared to what?

Rich

"Andrew Nowicki" <andrew@nospam.com> wrote in message
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When a reasonable person fails to attain his
goal, he either abandons the goal or tries
a different method of attaining the goal.
An idiot is usually defined as someone who
responds to failure by doubling his efforts.

NASA is an ossified bureaucracy, but they are
not idiots. When their big SETI program failed,
they abandoned it. SETI@homers ignore their
failures and have little if any interest in
modifying their search method. Worse yet, they
seem to believe that some extraterrestrial
civilizations have been sending powerful
microwave beams toward the Earth for millions
of years. Why would the extraterrestrial tax
payers support such an effort? If we ever
receive their message it will say something
like: "Life is absurd. Have a happy suicide."