“So far, the antennas haven’t tuned into any broadcasts.
“That’s no reason to get discouraged,” Seth Shostak, senior astronomer with the SETI Institute, which is based in Mountain View, California, said during a July 26 webcast by the Slooh Community Observatory.
“Bacteria, trilobites, dinosaurs—they were here but they weren’t building radio transmitters,” he said.”
Read the whole article at space.com.