JoeSP wrote:

Author Michael Crichton, in a 2003 lecture at CalTech, stated that "The Drake equation cannot be tested and therefore SETI is not science. SETI is unquestionably a religion."

True to form for a religion, the less you know about it, the more interesting it is.  The list of problems with SETI is now so long, I couldn't bring myself to waste the watts of electricity needed to run the SETI software.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI

Michael Crichton + CalTech = Idiot.