"sig666" <sig666nospam@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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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.

If that's all you have to refute with, you're only strengthening the other 
side.