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?
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.
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.
Now that she is retired and has lots of spare time she should read the book “Rare Earth”..
There is only about one means of speed of light interstellar communications with enough power to overcome interference to send messages across such vast distances.
It is called a stellar Aldis lamp. An Aldis lamp is a “shutter lamp” used by ships at sea to silently communicate with each other.
By creating a much larger version in space, between the local star and the target star, that by applying a small current will change from transparent to opaque, simple code messages can be sent one way.
If we created such a lamp, it would likely be between the orbit of Mars and the orbit of Earth. Aiming it would be difficult, because it would have to stay between our Sun and where that target star system was going to be.