Posted on 08/14/2011 5:03:15 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Where does it talk about tax dollars?
Will Jodie Foster be one of the participants of this? Is she, “O.K. to go.”?
Go to HotAir, click on the embedded link to the April article. It talks about budget woes.
“Is this about the union or bigfoot?”
Emily Latella
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Sorry. I had to get it out of my system.
It makes no sense to point these radio-telescopes towards space when there are many locations on Earth to search for intelligent life:
1600 Penn Ave, Congress, EPA, NPR....
RE: Where does it talk about tax dollars?
This article only mentions that its current funding will be from private sources.
As for tax dollars, this Reuters news mentions it:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/13/us-space-search-idUSTRE77C20220110813
EXCERPT:
The SETI project was hit hard by recent federal government budget cuts and by cost-savings at UC Berkeley.
Pierson said the 27-year-old SETI Institute, which aside from overseeing the telescope array also researches origins of life in extreme environments and conducts public education, had received two-thirds of its funding from government sources.
Point the antenna up guys 'cause there doesn't seem to be any down here, especially in Washington.
I, for one, will welcome our insect overlords.
Actually, there's a better chance of detecting intelligent life in the vacuum of intergalactic space than in those places. Let's hope that intelligent life will be found at 1600 Penn Ave, on January 20, 2013. Maybe the telescopes can be aimed first toward some polling places on Nov. 6, 2012, to see if there are any signs of intelligent life there.
Me too, especially if the eat democrats.
Its all cool, as long as they stick to receiving and don’t transmit stuff.
What they will eventually “find” will be demons posing as extraterrestrials -
they will put on a convincing show (part of the coming great deception). They will probably be “environmentalists”.
>>> SETI is back on the air
It was never off the air. Various installations participate in the project. Most notably the Arecibo big dish in Puerto Rico.
We've been "transmitting stuff" for almost 100 years.
The child in me, who still has a deep love of astronomy, would go in a heartbeat.
The tired, adult, snarky cynic believes that if ETs ever visit, they're too foolish to stay away and deserve whatever happens.
If one posits that the Bible is untrustworthy, then isn’t the First Wookie proof enough......?
We're transmitting a hell of lot of noise into space. From an advanced civilizations perspective we've just awakened, chirping like nest of newly hatched baby birds.
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