Messaging the ETs: science or (dangerous) religion?

[C C]

http://motls.blogspot.in/2016/05/messagi...erous.html

EXCERPT: [...] I generally believe that the widespread opinion that the life is almost everywhere is unjustifiable, directly clashing with certain emerging data, and the life on our planet may very well be very rare if not unique. [...] But that's not what I want to talk about here.

[...] SETI policies what to do after a detection are heavily outdated (written down in 1989) and if a detection took place now, in the era of intense social networks on the Internet, it would be almost guaranteed to lead to chaos and omnipresent misinformation. An update is badly needed.

[...] Whenever one hears a “scientist” assert that ET must be [...such and such....] ask to see the data set on which they base their conclusions. As of today, no such data set exists. In the absence of any evidence whatsoever, whether one believes that the extraterrestrial civilization we might first encounter will be benign [...] or malicious [...] or something else entirely is strictly a matter of one’s personal taste....

[Magical Realist]

I have to disagree. Not only do I feel life to be common thruout the universe, but I also think there are other states of matter/energy that may be described as different versions of life 101. Plife for example. And gife. And mife, And so on. There are I wager even forms of living energy that haunt the cumulous canyons of radiant nebulae. Gaseous hiveminds infesting the methane atmospheres of brown dwarfs. I think the idea of life as something special will dissolve as we explore the universe over the next thousand years. And there are as many forms of consciousness as there are forms of matter to generate it. I am a borderline panpsychic in this respect. I derive my inspiration from science fiction of course. But I think we live in a science fiction reality as it is.

[elte]

If we could figure out how to transmit subspace radio signals, that could greatly extend our practical range.  Maybe quantum radio.