>These methods focus on finding extraterrestrials with an equivalent or greater technological advancement to our own. ... AND actually willing to communicate w

>These methods focus on finding extraterrestrials with an equivalent or greater technological advancement to our own. ... AND actually willing to communicate with us, which is not IMHO to be assumed as given. We need to find a rather "narrow" set of aliens with a technology similar enough to ours, and animated by a similar curiosity about the rest of the universe.