The case for building a SETI observatory on the moon
I'm fed up with titles like this that suggest that an entire scientific community, or at least some body with a legitimate claim to representing the interests of that community, wants something when all that is really happening is that some particular group of scientists has submitted a proposal.<p>Here's the first line of the article:<p>> On Monday, a group of researchers sponsored by Breakthrough Listen, the world’s largest program, submitted a paper to National Academy of Sciences’ Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey that makes the case for establishing a SETI radio observatory on the farside of the moon.<p>Note that this line is also incorrect due to a missing word.  Breakthrough Listen may be the world's largest SETI program, but it is certainly not the world's largest program, whatever that would even mean.<p>So this is some particular group of SETI specialists, which I highly doubt represents the interests of the astronomical community at large (I would guess that only a small fraction of astronomers even work on SETI).<p>Don't get me wrong, I'm not criticizing the project itself, just the misleading title of the article and the general decline in journalistic standards.