How about "happily employed doing something they like" instead of just doing what someone else likes? Doesn't that count for anything? So what if they are wasting their careers and talents on something that statistically can't ever amount to anything. It's their career, and it's what they care about.
You seem to know an awful lot about computers, hardware and programming. You seem to be rather good at it. How would you feel if someone said, "but we don't need that, what we need is someone to dig ditches" and you had to abide by that decision? That's what you're trying to do to the entire SETI program - give it the axe based on your determination that it's of no value. Of no value to you - but not necessarily of no value at all.
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You seem to know an awful lot about computers, hardware and programming. You seem to be rather good at it. How would you feel if someone said, "but we don't need that, what we need is someone to dig ditches" and you had to abide by that decision? That's what you're trying to do to the entire SETI program - give it the axe based on your determination that it's of no value. Of no value to you - but not necessarily of no value at all.