> All the energy and money of such could be better spent What money? It costs nothing to talk about it. It's not like anyone is wasting millions of dollars in

> All the energy and money of such could be better spent What money? It costs nothing to talk about it. It's not like anyone is wasting millions of dollars into writing a nautilus article. The issue is a budget assignment issue, SETI is currently considered low priority vs other subjects in NASA and other orgs budget. If you want a bigger budget for SETI, then people need to talk about it and a make a lot of noise, and citizens need to vote for representative that will pledge support for that.