~misfit~ wrote:

I was discussing SETI on another forum and was pointed to a post on

[...]

<begin quote>

"Why listen only at one of the naturally noisiest frequencies in the
universe?

   Neither the "water hole" nor the 21 centimeter hydrogen resonance
frequency
is a good choice. After all, you are competing--in the latter case--with 99%

[...]

Sounds like a very old conspiracy theorist's dreamtime...

There's good well discussed reasoning behind the present selection of frequency ranges that are being searched.

Any military searching would use dedicated hardware that the military would have direct control of, and that would give a much faster result. No military types could wait 5 years to then have only analysed half the data to then wait another year to follow it up.

Wow, scientists have to have the patience of saints!

All good fun,
Martin