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It would be more scientific to search for the conditions of life rather than life itself.
It would be exciting to pick up an intelligent signal from somewhere. If we did, I doubt it would be very useful to us. It wouldn't give us much evidence of anything except for the fact that there is (or was) something intelligent out there.
I would support a more practical approach.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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