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Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
The caveat in sending a beacon is attracting a species just looking for more food. If we cannot distribute our food reasonably over our own planet, how could we share with an alien race? And what if they exhibit predatory behavior?
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.