SETI Institute Shuts Down Alien Search Antenna Array

[W0VYE]

Due to funding cuts from the National Science Foundation and the State of California the SETI Institute has shut down its 42 antenna Hat Creek array. The shortfall amounts to $5 million needed to maintain daily operations over the next two years.

I love this. We're spending $2 billion per week in Afgahnistan and hardly anyone cares. But if it smells like research, everyone's happy to kill it. On the other hand, if SETI ever detects something, what's the plan? We'd do well to remember that when the Native Americans finally met Columbus things didn't turn out so well for the Native Americans.

[W5BIB]

It's called Satire.

TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo

Is that like reverse psychology?

[WF7A]

For this thread it'd be SETIre.

[K4KYV]

I love this. We're spending $2 billion per week in Afgahnistan and hardly anyone cares. But if it smells like research, everyone's happy to kill it. On the other hand, if SETI ever detects something, what's the plan? We'd do well to remember that when the Native Americans finally met Columbus things didn't turn out so well for the Native Americans.

Eppure si muove!

- Galileo Galilei

[KJ6OJL]

did we reply with down the middle?
LOL

They NSF cut funding because the only message we received back from the aliens were "How's it hangin'?"

[KA3TRX]

We should concentrate on Mars. And keep those Slim Whitman recordings handy.

[K4KYV]

...if SETI ever detects something, what's the plan? We'd do well to remember that when the Native Americans finally met Columbus things didn't turn out so well for the Native Americans.

The miltary-industrial-congressional complex should be overwhelmingly in support of funding this research. Consider it a long-term investment. Eventually, just as with the demise of Nazism, Communism and all the other evil "isms" we have bankrupted ourselves defeating, "terrorism / Islamic extremism" will eventually fizzle.

Then we'll need to find a new enemy.

[W0VYE]

The miltary-industrial-congressional complex should be overwhelmingly in support of funding this research. Consider it a long-term investment. Eventually, just as with the demise of Nazism, Communism and all the other evil "isms" we have bankrupted ourselves defeating, "terrorism / Islamic extremism" will eventually fizzle.

Then we'll need to find a new enemy.

Good point. Otherwise we'd have to face up to the the truth. "We have met the enemy and he is us." 73

[K8ERV]

Then we'll need to find a new enemy.

Will I do?................

TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo

[2E0OZI]

Depends how much you hate the Romans.....