SETI

Over the last 5o years, SETI, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, has spent millions, if not billions, of dollars searching the heavens and listening for some signal from some intelligent extraterrestrial life forms. What has been the result of all this time, effort, and money? The result has been nothing. When asked to justify their expendatures, these scientists say, "The last 50 years have been a learning experience." They say that if you wanted to determine if there were any fish in the ocean, and you only based you opinion on the results of taking a random  teacup sample of seawater, or even milions of random teacups of water, you might conclude there were no fish in the ocean. They say there may not be a signal becase the aliens do not know we exist or that they may consider us inconsequential. They say, "What if in 1492 the qween stopped funding Columbus just becase he had found any new worlds." They say, "Imagine how foolish you would feel if you didn't try only because someone said you're a lunatic." I say how foolish we are for funding these lunatics who justify their jobs by saying that, while they have no results after 50 years, they will have results if given enough time and money.