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.Here's the first line of the article:> 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.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.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).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.