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That's my point. It's not science.

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Neither is love-making. So what?


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Well - we dont divert scientific funding to love-making. The point is not that SETI has no place, it's just not science. For what it's worth I dont think love-making is science either but that doesnt seem relevant to the original post.

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It's saying "Hey this would be cool if we found it, though we have no good reason to believe we will...let's go look"

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And?

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And - this is not a good reason to spend millions of dollars, anymore than a few homeopaths telling me they have noticed good results is a good reason to invest millions on producing "medicinal" water.