Sometimes how I feel about SETI and the the search

[Warpy]

5. HAHAHAHA!! Exactly!

Radio waves are pretty inefficient for long distance communication. They're limited to light speed and they get weaker and more jumbled by background noise from the working of the universe the farther they travel.

True long distance communication will be something we're not close to getting a handle on, quite possibly that "teleportation" phenomenon they've discovered and extended to over 100 Km so far.

Not only that, but our idea of communication would hardly apply to Og of Planet Zarkon, a methane breather who communicates chemically through pads on his tentacles.

My own guess is that any planet capable of life will have it, if only under the surface in deep caves. However, it is not going to be Star Trek out there, a mistake the SETI people are making.

(Oh, and the "Wow!" phenomenon? Sort of like the "bloop" on undersea monitors, both likely to be explained by boringly ordinary workings of the environment)