Posted on 05/23/2012 4:26:04 AM PDT by iowamark
What a f*****g wast of time and other peoples' money! The woman should be put in a work gang and forced to do productive labor for all of the taxpayer funds she wasted. I would say what a waste of a mind, but anyone who thinks that aliens are trying to communicate with us (a premise on which SETI is based) is alreay defficient in the mind department.
I wonder which will be found first. Bigfoot or aliens? Or will they both be never ending searches with no results?
Exactly, she should go on a search for common sense.
LOL, but way too late for her.
spending 35 years scanning the heavens for signals from intelligent aliens..”
WOW! What a resume!!!
As a point of reference, SETI is not trying to find aliens speaking to us. SETI is trying to to find aliens speaking to EACH OTHER.
The Federal Government hasn’t paid for SETI in years. They do rent the arrays for other purposes.
I cannot believe that out of all the stars and planets we are all alone. Whether we are the smartest in the universe to have ever lived is the question.
God gave us the ability to worship him. Did beings somewhere else write their own Bible?
I watch all the space and astrophysics science shows on Science Channel and other Discovery and History channel shows on stuff like this.(no not ancient alien crap with the guy with the big hair...)
she has been on a bunch of those shows..and I like her style... she will be missed, I am sure, by her peers.
Good Luck Jill.
FALSE. I attended an astronomy conference once upon a time and one of the SETI crew was there. I asked him at what distance they could detect the signals generated by a planet like earth with their equipment. He honestly answered a couple of light years. I said then what's the point of looking futher away. He then answered that they based their search on the assumption that aliens were trying to communicate with us.
The Federal Government hasn’t paid for SETI in years.
So what? At one time it was taxpayers' hard earned dollars pouring down this idiotic rathole. And it has been heavily funded/subsidized by the taxpayers over the years. Who do you think paid for the radio telescope arrays that they use, eh? Plus there are state funds that were used recently - also taxpayers' hard earned dollars
I cannot believe that out of all the stars and planets we are all alone
So what? Who cares? You gonna go visit 'em? You want to visit supposedly intelligent beings who think totally different than us go to Greece.
God gave us the ability to worship him.
Again, what's this have to do with a waste of taxpayer funded resources.
Not a bad career on the back of the taxpayer. The global warming crowd needs to stop thinking so big. The smaller scams fly under the radar better..and longer.
What a waste of a life and precious resources. There are roughly 2.9 billion people on this planet who are born, live, and die without access to the gospel of Jesus Christ, yet this woman has spent her life trying to contact unknown alien beings. I’m guessing she doesn’t believe that one day soon she will stand before the Almighty and give an account. I hope I’m wrong.
If the Feds paid for SETI, I’d cut pretty much every budget item - except defense - before I’d cut SETI.
The premise of their mission is fascinating and they produce a ton of good radio-astronomy data that is a byproduct of their efforts.
I couldn't have said it better myself. And a waste of her life to boot.
Honestly stated. I wholeheartely disagree with you, and that's the first thing I'd cut, but just out of curiosity, how much money have you voluntarily donated to SETI?
If you ever need a good laugh go watch that big foot show on apl .
It’s a huge unintentional comedy hour
Ah, at least FR is predictable; most of the replies are from people consumed with hatred of science and scientists.
1) It’s a microscopic amount of money.
2) Other than some very minor efforts long ago, it’s not federally funded. it’s funded by donations.
But let’s all mock someone smarter than us who devoted her life to something that hasn’t been successful so far, but if it is would be the single greatest accomplishment in human history.
You seriously think she might have SINNED by working on this? Really?
So, I assume you spend every waking moment bringing the gospel to 2.9 billion people?
Are you afraid of the religious implications of the discovery of intelligent extraterrestrial life or something?
she has been on a bunch of those shows..and I like her style... she will be missed, I am sure, by her peers.
Good Luck Jill.
Years ago the late Catherine Langford tried to recruit Jill Tarter for a Deep Space Radar Telemetry project run by the Air Force out of Cheyenne Mountain. Rumor had it that a number of notable people such as Samantha Carter, Bill Lee, and Rodney McKay were on the project. It was very tempting for her.
But then Jill got word that linguist and UFO freak Dr. Daniel Jackson (The Pyramids were landing sites for alien spaceships!) was somehow involved. She wisely turned them down...
:)
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