On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 00:41:30 GMT, "Eric" <none@nospam.not> wrote:

Since it is more likely that ET will hear us than we will hear him, I think
there should be a coordinated effort to get every radar in operation to
shoot at the sky for a few seconds simultaneously.  (I know it would never
happen, but..)

Providing ET doesn't show up and eat our descendents, seems the chance for
success would be greater than listening to the static...

Nice idea but who gets the credit if they find something? The
in-fighting is ALARMING in scope when something like this is proposed.
There have been other ideas in the past, and there will some more in
the future, but honestly the arguing means that it has little chance
of ever succeeding to any great degree.