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Sir Hamster of Elderberry KWSN ArchBishop
Joined: 20 May 2002 Posts: 5117 Location: Beer City, Cheese Quadrant
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Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 9:16 am Post subject: SETI is dead — long live SETI |
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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 _________________ -- Have you seen my goat? |
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Sir Papa Smurph Cries like a little girl
Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Posts: 4430 Location: Michigan
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Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 3:29 pm Post subject: |
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Well,... I have to "Sign Up for Free Access"..... Nope, not doin it _________________ a.k.a. Licentious of Borg.........Resistance Really is Futile.......
and a Really Hoopy Frood who always knows where his Towel is...
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mohrorless Mail Order Goat Bride
Joined: 09 Oct 2006 Posts: 11206 Location: NYC
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Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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I agree with the little blue guy. _________________ Fetch me the Holy Hand Grenade!
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PhastPhred Prince
Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 6017 Location: Northwest AR (USA)
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Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 12:08 pm Post subject: |
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http://crev.info/content/110729-earth_uniqueness_up_seti_down
Has some info about that Posting
Quote: | 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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Sir Hamster of Elderberry KWSN ArchBishop
Joined: 20 May 2002 Posts: 5117 Location: Beer City, Cheese Quadrant
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klaatuborada Yo ho! Post ho!
Joined: 08 Dec 2002 Posts: 2098 Location: by the dock by the bay...
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Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 9:57 am Post subject: |
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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. _________________ Confucious say, "Man who lay girl on hill, not on level"
sic eas ad astra
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Plomos Prince
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Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 11:21 am Post subject: |
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It certainly wouldn't cost as much i would think because the signals have to go a shorter distance _________________
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