It is unwise to respond to alien signal, but why?

Astronomers found only some hints of life from an exoplanet K2-18b. — Nasa/Caltech/R Hurt Experts for several decades have been searching for signs of life outside Earth and our solar system but they could not find anything other than planets, as many as 5,000, but it has been termed unwise...

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