Colin Jones <cjspambuffer@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in news:f8vp2yhnzb5q.dlg@colin-
jones.co.uk:

Hiya Clive Abramovich Delmonte.

In <news:hWUGc.163$I74.19@newsfe3-win.ntli.net> you wrote:

This is why intelligent life in space will never communicate with us.  We
are doves in a Universe of sparrowhawks.

  SETI@Home is passive; it just listens. It's all the R/F transmitters on
the planet that'd need to be turned off to avoid your scenario.

If that happened then Clive wouldn't be able to watch X-Files :-(

Dr.Mike

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