Fluatist wrote:

Humm planet of lawyers? Great now the earthed will be sued for listneing in
on provate communications.

    But do they have a reasonable expectation of privacy? Would it be permissable to intercept the message as long as we do not convey its contents to another planet? Would that be just any other planet including Mars if transmitted to humans on Mars or would it apply only to other planets with non-human species? May we not claim the fact of transmission constitutes an attractive nuisance and hold the sender liable for all damages which may accrue to human institutions such as religions?

    We may hope we first intercept the body of interstellar case law precedent on such matters so we will know how to conduct ourselves in the matter. If we do not we may find ourselves entangled in courts for millenia.

"Benjamin P." <kai1211@cashette.com> wrote in message
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Andrew Nowicki wrote:

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."

Why would you post something like that here? And if you was smart you
will know something like Seti will take a long time to reshach. Where is
a post in this news group can not remember what it is called but it
explains why we should not stop. And why and how long it may take. Maybe
someone could tell me where it is and I could but a google link to it.