Re: SETI Politics

The SETI Institute is not "forced by circumstances of social
acceptability to ignore the possibility of searching for interstellar
ET spaceprobes or relics within our solar system".  How do you think
the Institute would fund such research?  Private funding supports
development of the ATA and associated SETI systems.  Everything else is
funded by NASA and NSF grants.

To see the real reason for not searching for ET spacecraft, try writing
a research proposal to NASA or the NSF for such work.
 
Peter Backus
SETI Institute