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This document discusses the SETI project which searches for extraterrestrial life and whether the government should fund such efforts. It asks whether the search is a valid scientific mission and what the reader's calculation of the Drake Equation was based on their values for N, the number of advanced civilizations attempting contact. Finally, it asks how the reader thinks contact being established with an extraterrestrial intelligence would be received by themselves, neighbors, and US citizens.

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The SETI project and other efforts to contact or listen for
messages from extraterrestrial life were once funded by our
government. Should the government support this endeavor?
Is this search for intelligent life a scientific mission?
What was your answer to the Drake Equation based on the
values you used to calculate N, the number of advanced
civilizations in our galaxy that are attempting to contact us?
Finally, comment on how you think the news would be received
that contact is established with some other intelligence?
What would be the reactions of you, your neighbors, and the
citizens of the U.S.?

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