SETI again

--- In spacesettlers, "Robert" wrote:

> 5) after 500 years they will likely have forgotten that they came
> from a different star, with only legend to tell them where they came

Er... weren't we just talking about Columbus?

> from. If they send out another colonizing ship, they would be as
> likely to send it to a star that had already been colonize as not.

Not if they are getting signals from that star that let them know it's
already inhabited.