[BC] Future of radio and it's engineers?

[SteveOrdinetz]

  Dave Dunsmoor wrote:
>     So my question is this: could there possibly be a greater future in
>"listening" than in "talking" for those of us who really like technology?
>What would it take to generate the interest in extra-terrertrial research to
>release the resources to build more of this type of facility? And no, I'm
>not talking about SETI and the "Art Bell" crowd here.


The big limiting factor here is the number of locations you could put 
one of these listening stations.  Certainly any populated area is 
gonna be too noisy electrically to be very useful, and that's not 
even taking into account land costs (and NIMBY hassles) anywhere near 
civilization.