Name: Anonymous 2011-04-27 21:05
>In the mountains of Northern California, a field of radio dishes that look like giant dinner plates waited for years for the first call from intelligent life among the stars.
>But they're not listening anymore.
>Cash-strapped governments, it seems, can no longer pay the interstellar phone bill.
>Astronomers at the SETI Institute said a steep drop in state and federal funds has forced the shutdown of the Allen Telescope Array, a powerful tool in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, an effort scientists refer to as SETI.
sad_carl_sagan.jpg
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/04/27/shrinking-funds-pull-plug-alien-search-devices/#ixzz1Km5ASGp5
>But they're not listening anymore.
>Cash-strapped governments, it seems, can no longer pay the interstellar phone bill.
>Astronomers at the SETI Institute said a steep drop in state and federal funds has forced the shutdown of the Allen Telescope Array, a powerful tool in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, an effort scientists refer to as SETI.
sad_carl_sagan.jpg
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/04/27/shrinking-funds-pull-plug-alien-search-devices/#ixzz1Km5ASGp5