Cecil Moore wrote:
cliff wright wrote:

The null results of SETI do not surprise me for a similar reason. If
there are advanced starfaring races out there radio or other EM
communication would be woefully inadequate and either not used at all
or only for very specialised (and slow) directional links which are
unlikely to send data towards Earth.


If I was a member of an advanced race, I would be using
entangled particles for FTL communications. However, I
would also be listening for those primitive slow obsolete
EM waves.

Well Cecil, you might be listening, but I might not be sending!
It often amuses me to consider just how naive humans can be in
advertising their presence in our spiral arm for a long time now.
Why do so many assume that an advanced race might have such a benign
attitude to other intelligences. We probably don't even share DNA
so why should we seee things in the same light.
See Larry Niven's "Tales of known space" (about 1966) for an example of
a race that got more than it bargained for when it met the Kzin through
radio.
Cliff Wright.