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In article <tim.726364246@giaeb>, tim@giaeb.cc.monash.edu.au (Tim Roberts) writes:
> OK, I'm a rank amateur, I don't normally read this group, so please be gentle
> with me.....
> 
> Lots of money (I understand) is being spent on SETI, on the usual quite
> reasonable assumption that there may be millions of civilisations out there.
> Now, it seems to me that it would be astonishing if another civilisation were
> at exactly our point in technology.  Those that are far below would not be
> able to send or receive anyway.  So we only need consider those that are in
> advance of us, perhaps to almost unimaginable amounts.  Further, we need only
> consider those that want to contact a backward civilisation like ours - if
> they don't want to, they'll make sure we never know about them.
> 
> So, we are left with a civilisation that is probably very far ahead of ours,
> but wants to contact us (for some reason).  Now, how would they go about it ?
> Surely they'd set beacons somewhere in space that could not possibly be
> missed.  And, remember, their technology is probably millenia (at least) ahead
> of ours.
> 
> So, my question is, given that we ought to look for beacons that cannot be
> missed:  has anyone examined the immediate vicinity of pulsars ?  I mean,
> REALLY examined them ?
> 
> Wouldn't this be better than searching more-or-less random points in space ?
> 
> Tim
> 

Only major problem I might see with SETI is that what I see almost
everday. NAmely to see two cultures that for one reason or another have to
interact. The Local Eskimo (Inupiaq) and White (General American).
Problem is I see lost people, kids who don't want to be eskimo but carbon
copy whites (unless its to their benefit to be eskimo, when its fashonable
to be eskimo).. Sorry for being pessemistic, just being open about possible
problems with alien contact.. We can hope that the alien civilisation is of
a lower technical level than our, we can always exploit them when possible.
For if the civilisation is of a "higher" level, we might face lossing
ourselves as human, what would the cost be??
 
I do liek the Star Trek ideal of alien contact, but we must be open about
possible problems..
 
Also I don't think we give enought time and money to the proper SETI
search. Well such is the budget..
 
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Michael Adams alias Ghost Wheel/Morgoth NSMCA@acad3.alaska.edu