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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
That was a great read and pretty much sums up why I doubt we will ever contact intelligence life forms or alien civilizations... ever. I think it's a waste of time and money to even try. I am sure that life is all over the universe, but communicating with it or studying it is futile.
Not that I am entirely against the space program though, but I think it should be focused on things that can help humanity in the not so distant future and not just to satisfy vain curiousity.
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I still think it's worthwhile doing something. Two things I support is finding and examining all the planets we can find.. this could lead to discovery of even non-intelligent life elsewhere and also has other benefits to knowledge of the galaxy in general and improving models of solar system creation, etc..
SETI I'm also ok with, it's not a huge cost and if we're going to see evidence of other intelligent species that's as good a method as any.
I don't want a big portion of the budget to go to SETI type stuff, but some of it is ok I think; the potential payoff is so huge.