[fnordpiglet]

Oh I agree if I wanted to be known I would send out some highly structured signal. That assumes a lot though, particularly a desire to be known. I could imagine quite easily a counter scenario not even based on paranoia - maybe interstellar distances are so vast and the period civilizations try to be known in is so short that they all essentially give up on being known, and the chance of two civilizations overlapping in that window is much smaller than the length of an advanced civilization. Or, without watching every where all at once all the time we just won’t see them in their space life hubris phase that I feel we are likely exiting already. Realistically Drakes equation and a non Martian search for life has only been going on for 50 years. I doubt it’ll be going on in earnest for another 50. That’s a single human life span.

[iskander]

...what happens in the next 50 years?

[fnordpiglet]

My wager is little to no SETI investment as we settle into the assumption we are either the first, the only, or are structurally isolated from intelligent life in the universe. A collective shoulder shrug and a refocus on survival in our dirty terrarium.