Yvan Dutil said:
>>>My opinion is this is only A drop in the ocean, Allen Tough think is it THE
>>>drop.
>>
Paul Shuch said:
>>No, I don't think Allen really believes that at all (how about let's ask
>him?) It is my understanding that Allen believes this to be the one drop
>that he is able to contribute. Others of us contribute other drops. If
>enough drops are contributed to the SETI enterprise, we'll end up with a
>real ocean, and *somebody* is likely to succeed, some day.
Allen Tough responds:
Paul is quite correct. The whole point of my "Array of Search
Strategies" paper was to encourage six different strategies, ranging from
radio/optical seti to searching for physical traces of a probe. My own
strategy is to bring together 60 SETI/Contact people to issue an
invitation to ETI on the web, but I am glad other people pursue other
strategies. The paper was presented at the SETI session
in Amsterdam
last month, and can be read at: