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Originally Posted by Van Rijn
By "those scientists" are you referring to Seth Shostak? Here's an article on Shostak's idea:
http://space.newscientist.com/channe...biology/dn6189
As a counterpoint it is noted:
Paul Shuch, executive director of the SETI League, a separate organisation in New Jersey, says Shostak's prediction ignores one important factor. "It is altogether reasonable to project the development of human technology, based upon past trends and planned investments," he says.
"But predicting the date, the decade or even the century of contact is another matter because the 'other end' of the communications link is completely out of our hands. It would be nice to think we know something about the existence, distribution, technology and motivation of our potential communications partners in space, but in fact, we don't." |
And what about Shostak's response to this?
Why did you leave that off your quote?
He's simply using the accepted assumptions used by SETI scientists and astrobiologists themselves.
And yet here I am "wrong" for essentially doing the same...