http://www.space.com/searchforlife/080508-seti-why-dont.html
Why Don't They Do SETI?

By Seth Shostak
SETI Institute
posted: 08 May 2008
12:30 am ET

A widespread and popular impression of SETI is that it's a worldwide enterprise. Well, it's not, and there's something modestly
puzzling in that.

The idea of communicating between worlds is at least 150 years old. Victorian scientists Karl Friedrich Gauss and Joseph von Littrow
are both reputed to have concocted schemes to establish rapport with Moon-men or Martians by signaling them with light. Gauss was a
German, and von Littrow was Austrian. But within a century, the important ideas about getting in touch with aliens were coming from
the western side of the Atlantic. The fundamental concepts for radio SETI were first incubated and hatched in America.

For three decades following Frank Drake's first modern SETI experiment in 1960, the American efforts had a strong and fertile
counterpart in the Soviet Union. The Soviet SETI work was frequently brilliant, occasionally nutty, and pursued by researchers who
were active and enthused.

That all ended with the Soviet Union's collapse. And for the last two decades, the large majority of all SETI effort has taken place
in the U.S. Yes, there have been commendable experiments in Australia, Argentina, India, and Italy. But only the Italians are active
today.

So what's the story? Why is SETI nearly exclusively an American game?

Humans are too stupid to realize that any aliens they make contact with
would be more advance and more intelligent than they.
Thus it is more a case of "Human Avoidance" rather than "Uncertainty
Avoidance".
There is nothing any self respecting alien could learn from humans - but
indeed much humans could learn from them.
But why would any self respecting aliens want to have anything to do with
humans?
You cannot be trusted. You lie. You steal. You are violent. You are
hypocrites. You are still animals and fornicate. You are primitive with your
pollution making machinery. You are stupid beyond measure. You have a
hubris that makes you a laughing stock. You are mean. Cruel. Your Laws
are ridiculous and unjust. Your wars fought with cowardice and without
honour. You are mercenary...

On May 8, 8:37 pm, Sir Frederick fuzzysys.com> wrote:

On May 8, 5:37 pm, Sir Frederick fuzzysys.com> wrote:

On May 9, 11:03 am, "Xan" home.com> wrote:

On May 9, 1:17 pm, Ed earthlink.net> wrote:

On Thu, 08 May 2008 17:37:20 -0700, Sir Frederick wrote:

Imagine what would happen, what would really happen if anything came of
this program. Would anyone but a very few even know about it?