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Tarter is shifting into a full-time fund-raising role for the SETI Institute, which had to shut down a set of alien-hunting radio telescopes for more than seven months last year due to budget shortfalls
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Add CommentSearch for extraterrestrial inteligent life looks to me as one of the most purposeless tasks you may invent. If alien civilisations are in a let us say, stone age phase, we won't notice them, if they've reached a level of development above us, our technology will never have the ability to detect or even guess theirs, and even more, imagine that in our world or in another, a new Attila is born, but having the technology for expanding to stars: anybody with the lesser amount of prudency in the outer space will make everything possible to stay hidden. This kind of activities are good in that they give many people an occasion to entertain the hours, to have a hope of an Arcadia or Utopia existing somewhere in the universe, and for giving opportunities and money to the people working in this search. Sincerely, I'll never put a single cent in anything like this.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisYes, let's hide our heads in the sand and hope ET doesn't see our asses sticking up.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThe search may be good. May be not. But, in this article, she quits a productive job to raise GRANT MONEY.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisMaybe the project has no purpose, other than employing misplaced astrophysicists. How many do we really need?