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.
Exactly, she should go on a search for common sense.
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?
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.
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.