Wirt Atmar wrote:
>
> Because I'm leaving for a week to actually go do some work, and because I
> won't readily be able to post while I'm away, I'll have to make up for that
> fact and put more than my share on the list this evening :-).
>
> While there's still a great deal of enthusiasm for SETI work among the
> general public, there's more than a bit of pessimism that's settling in among
> the people that have been doing this kind of work for several decades now.
> It's becoming increasingly obvious that if it were going to be easy finding
> such extra-terrestrial civilizations, we'd probably have stumbled onto them
> by now.
>
Very interesting, Wirt.  My only comment is that Man's knowledge and
capability
seems to be increasing exponentially.  As a science fiction fan, I can
see all
kinds of possibilities, most of which may be unlikely, but it only takes
one.

We are looking for radio waves because that is the state of our
technology
today.  For example, maybe another civilization communicates with lasers
or
some other technology we have not even dreamed of yet. Etc. Etc. Etc.
Of we look
at what we knew and what we could do one hundred years ago and what we
can do and
know today, what will the next hundred years bring?

Nick D.