Yup.  There are also organizations who meet and research about contacting aliens.  Doing research is not evidence of validity or progress.<p>One thing to note though is these efforts are often put forth by some hard working folks and the product can be something great.<p>For example, &quot;Thinking Machines&quot; [1] [2], founded in 1983 in Cambridge and defunct in 1994.  The folks who spent effort there would later take their knowledge of parallel programming and built a tool called An Initio as a successor company.  The tool was way ahead of its time.  It&#x27;d maximize resource usage on a machine in parallel without much technical knowledge needed by the developer.  They made a boat load off of deploying this tool on internal datasets at many major companies for what was then called &quot;data warehousing&quot;.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.technologyreview.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;406781&#x2F;thinking-machines&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.technologyreview.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;406781&#x2F;thinking-machines&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Thinking_Machines_Corporation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Thinking_Machines_Corporation</a>