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Is SETI Worth It?

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the lights-are-on-but-no-one's-home dept.

njdube sent in this Space.com story about the money behind SETI that opens, "It's a risky long shot that burns up money and might never, ever pay off. So is searching for intelligent creatures on unseen worlds worth the candle? After all, aren't there better ways to use our monies and technical talents than trying to find something that's only posited to exist: sentient beings in the dark depths of space?"

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  1. Find a cure for cancer first by ylikone · · Score: 0, Troll

    How about we dedicate spare CPU cycles to cancer research (or some other worldwide disease like AIDS). Instead of finding life on distant planets, how about we fix life on ours.

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    Meh.