Louis Holleman,
Unfortunately there's lots of what SETI screws up, such as the innocent
minds of children that'll go absolutely postal once they discover how
well snookered they've all become.
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.astro.seti/browse_frm/thread/f4e192dd43f7e93f/52f252567a279338#52f252567a279338

Newsgroups: sci.astro.seti
Subject: Princeton/Harvard OSETI Terminated

According to the latest news section of
http://observatory.princeton.edu/oseti/

"The observatory where the Harvard OSETI group performed their
observations has been closed, so the targeted OSETI search performed by

the Harvard and Princeton OSETI groups has stopped, likely for good.
The Harvard OSETI group plans on continuing its all-sky OSETI survey."

That sucks. (I'm sure the lightning strikes at the Princeton
observatory didn't help either!)

Jason H.
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Gosh darn, I believe that's too bad because, we wouldn't have wanted
SETI/OSETI to have discovered the likes of quantum/FM photons,
especially of any of those as having been any portion of UV-a and/or
near-UV(400~450 nm) beacon because, if ETs were getting careless enough
to target our solar system, chances are that such an easily and
efficiently directed beam of such FM-photon ms packets would have
offered us potentially visual ms beacons as well as having incorporated
1e15 bps worth of data (ET smut) that would have been transmitted with
a millionth the energy requirement of any microwave worth of RF methods
that couldn't possibly be counted upon for delivering interstellar
packets of better than 1e6 bps, or most likely all of 1e3 bps would be
exceptional considering the tremendous happenstance of background noise
(a great deal of which having been Earth generated to start with) and
vast electromagnetic distortions involved.

I'm fairly certain that the SETI/OSETI ETI and ETs are actually going
to remain as that dumb and heathen like, as well as apparently
genetically blind to boot, thus OSETI need not bother, much less
establish our very own laser cannon packets as SOS beacons plus
offering loads of nifty Earth smut as easily incorporated into our
stream of quantum/FM packets of what should easily reach specific
interstellar targets, perhaps starting off with the nearby Sirius solar
system.

Of course the Sirius solar system only has two stars and not the
required three star association of other viable solar systems but, what
the heck, it seems that laser cannons are relatively dirt-cheap and
extremely energy efficient, thus what do we have to lose?
~

Life upon Venus, a township w/Bridge & ET/UFO Park-n-Ride Tarmac:
http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-town.htm
The Russian/China LSE-CM/ISS (Lunar Space Elevator)
http://guthvenus.tripod.com/lunar-space-elevator.htm
Venus ETs, plus the updated sub-topics; Brad Guth / GASA-IEIS
http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-topics.htm