Should We Search for Extraterrestrial Life?
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I'm Excited About the Volume of the Search Space of Possible Signals
The volume of the search space, of the possibilities of intercepting a signal is enormous. But if we're only going to allicate relatively minimal amounts of resources, then how can we ever hope to satisfactorily search that space and get an answer? We could spend a hundred years, a thousand years, searching for possible signals and not find anything, because we're not spending enough resources. So if we want to do it, we have to do it right, which means spending a lot more money than we are now. i'm happy to spend more money, but that's the way to think about it."
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