"PB" == Paul Bramscher <brams006_nospam@tc.umn.edu> writes:

PB> Linda wrote:

What's SETI looking for? Life forms able to communicate with us?
Life intelligent enough to communicate with other similar life
forms? Life that can communicate with my dog?  How are the various
SETI projects defining what they are searching for?

PB> I see this thread is a week old, but I like to insert my two bits
PB> here. SETI, I think, should really be caused SETB or the Search
PB> for Extra-terrestrial Behavior.

Jill Tarter often says something similar (search for extraterrestrial
technology or technomarkers).  The problem with changing the term is
not scientific, it's sociological.  Everybody already knows the term
SETI.

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