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SETI is dead — long live SETI

 
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 9:16 am    Post subject: SETI is dead — long live SETI Reply with quote

The search for alien intelligence: SETI is dead — long live SETI
The closure of the Allen Telescope Array shifts the search for extraterrestrial intelligence away from big science.

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110727/full/475442a.html
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 3:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well,... I have to "Sign Up for Free Access"..... Nope, not doin it Mad
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 4:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I agree with the little blue guy.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 12:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://crev.info/content/110729-earth_uniqueness_up_seti_down

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In a Nature News article, M. Mitchell Waldrop announced royally, “SETI Is dead – Long live SETI.” By that he meant that “The closure of the Allen Telescope Array shifts the search for extraterrestrial intelligence away from big science.” California’s budget crisis has shut down hopes at the Hat Creek site to scan the skies for intelligent signals. With that comes the graying of the true believers:

The melancholy vista at Hat Creek makes it easy to entertain equally melancholy thoughts about the SETI enterprise itself. It's the ultimate in high-risk, high-payoff science, pursued by only a handful of passionate researchers. In 50 years of searching, they have turned up nothing — and they can't quite shake an association in the public mind with flying-saucer sightings and Hollywood science fiction, all of which is so easy for cost-cutting politicians to ridicule that any substantial federal funding for SETI is impossible. Private support for the search is getting tighter because of the global recession. And many of the pioneers who have championed the search are now well into their 60s, 70s or 80s.

SETI Institute research head Jill Tarter remains optimistic, however, because smaller, cheaper searches are still continuing, and all searches over the past half century have only represented a tiny sample of space. Bottom line, though, is that nothing has been found, and even the most optimistic proponents cannot provide any reasonable estimate of the chances of success, despite the self-reinforcing opinions of those whose reputations depend on high hopes (Space.com).

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 9:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/08/08/7309356-donations-revive-seti-quest
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 9:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, we haven't found any intelligent life on this planet yet either, so maybe if they shift their focus to earth it won't cost anything.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 11:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It certainly wouldn't cost as much i would think because the signals have to go a shorter distance
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