Imagine earth a few hundred years in the past. A tribe of the Native Americans tries to seek other people on Mother Earth. As they didn't have the capabilities to ship over the oceans, they were sending scouts to the beaches of the Land of the Turtle to hear for descent drums or watch out for smoke characters. Unfortunately they were not sucessfull, they couldn't find a sign of other species over the vast distant of the Oceans so they gave up and declared they were the only citizens of Mother Earth. I believe that we are trying the same like the people in this story. I guess that the probability of finding a aliens who are as advanced as we are is like/dev/null.) . They will be far less or far more advanced. 80 years ago we wouldn't have been able to understand signals from Cell Phones after Matrix many people are using them. So how can we believe that we could receive signals from other civilizations ? Perhaps their way of communication is not even based on EM waves or they are using techniques we wouldn't understand to be a message at all ? I believe that if Seti remains not successfull this will not be proof of anything at all.
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Imagine earth a few hundred years in the past. A tribe of the Native Americans tries to seek other people on Mother Earth. As they didn't have the capabilities to ship over the oceans, they were sending scouts to the beaches of the Land of the Turtle to hear for descent drums or watch out for smoke characters. Unfortunately they were not sucessfull, they couldn't find a sign of other species over the vast distant of the Oceans so they gave up and declared they were the only citizens of Mother Earth. I believe that we are trying the same like the people in this story. I guess that the probability of finding a aliens who are as advanced as we are is like /dev/null .) . They will be far less or far more advanced. 80 years ago we wouldn't have been able to understand signals from Cell Phones after Matrix many people are using them. So how can we believe that we could receive signals from other civilizations ? Perhaps their way of communication is not even based on EM waves or they are using techniques we wouldn't understand to be a message at all ? I believe that if Seti remains not successfull this will not be proof of anything at all.