SETI related articles like this one are always full of PR for ID:

message = evidence

footprint = intelligence

artifacts = telltale signs

traces of technology = intelligence

watch for: anomalous presence of something that should not be there

look for: artifact

look for: terrestrial microbiology tampering

self-replicating and self-repairing biological nanosystems that conserve information for millions of years

All eyes converging on information found in observing molecular machines. Not just traces of it…

1. They might have already discovered we earthlings and decided that we are not interesting enough to establish communications with. Yep, that’s right. We might appear quite boring to them.

2. Intelligent ETs may consider direct evidence of their existence to be harmful to our historically problematic existence. A truly caring ET would prevent ET detection, for our benefit.

3. Intelligent ETs might be more likely to be discovered accidentally. I mean, they would be discovered not because of our research, but because of a mistake, a slip-up on their part.

4. Given the miraculous number and degree of fine-tuned parameters that must be met for intelligent life to even exist, maybe intelligent ETs just don’t exist.

Search For Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence – SETI receives message from God,,,,, Almost – video
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/.....od_almost/

This following “message” from “out there” was a little more direct, and had a whole lot more CSI.

One Easter Sunday Sunrise Service – video
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/.....y_morning/

I laughed when I read this:

“the time has come to widen the search from radio signals. Using the full array of scientific methods, from genomics”

I think the message we receive from our fantastically complex genome is very clear, it is a message telling us we are fearfully and wonderfully made by God.

Perhaps by testing the “content” of the message. If we are getting information that cannot have been collected by any known human method (say, specific info about the future), then this is a candidate for “alien messages”.

Once you start thinking along those lines, I believe you will begin to conclude that there are lots of candidate messages…

I’d hope for something like the network of wormholes that underpins the plots of movies like Contact or TV shows like the Stargate franchise. But it could be something we haven’t even imagined yet.

I’m no expert but if this is true? (and I’m assuming the SETI folks believe it is) Then they would have to understand the physics from the other side of the singularity if the message came from another universe because the physics that created the message would be changed when emerging from one side of the singularity to the other. And it doing so possibly destoying or changing the message that would unrecognizable because all of our technology is based on how we understand the physical properties of our universe.

If sound/message came from our universe, then they would have to accomidate for the change in the massege as it travels through atmospheres of planets either slowing it down, speeding it up or changing the messages direction which again may change it into something unrecognizable as we do not fully understand what may or may not happen on the outer edges within our universe.

Like I said, I’m no expert but I don’t like seeing my tax dollars go to a program that hasn’t produced in 50 years. If SETI was a football player it would have been traded to the Buffalo Bills along time ago. (PS I’m a Bills fan by marriage)