SETI: The Search for Extra Terrestrial Income

April 26, 2011 at 11:02 am PT

Good news for alien privacy advocates. After more than 50 years of hunting for alien radio signals, the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has been called off–not because it hasn’t made contact, but because it can’t make budget. Last Friday, the SETI Institute shut down its Allen Telescope Array (ATA), a field of radio dishes in northern California it had been using to listen for alien radio emissions, while it searches for $5 million to help cover operating costs for two years. For now, the ATA has been put into “hibernation,” SETI CEO Tom Pierson told donors–and this just as planet-hunting progress is booming.

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http://blog.macb.net macbeach

Google could do this in their sleep. I wonder how they manage to spend $5M on it.

All those hours my computers spent wasting electricity… was I supposed to be getting paid for it or something?

Once again a government subsidy program produces nothing, but a few SUV driving millionaires. So sad they will have to find another great cause to leach off of.

I think there are other similar programs like this already under way.

Besides, if there are intelligent civilizations near us, I have a feeling they will find us first. And it will not look like a replay of The Day the Earth Stood Still. More like Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy I suspect.
http://www.life-book.com Life Book

I believe that Google can do it. That would be great. Google now is a powerful company. I think they could manage to do with it.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Alex-Cannara/100000432287226 Alex Cannara

Good. SETI was a waste of $ that could have helped educate/feed kids. Even its pioneering founder said contact would be e non-event — no action possible.