Quitters.......;') It wasn't all that expensive, but I still regard it as a waste of money. Of course, I also regard the STS as a waste of money, since it costs $500 million a launch, and only goes 200 miles. :'D
"But I am not really willing to accept your premise, because it may well be that the means of communications they have are of a kind that we do not know how to receive, and that they would not have the means of communicating with sufficiently powerful radio or optical signals. That is something which, technologically, is too difficult for them but they would have some other means we would not recognize." -- Thomas J. Gold (Communication with Extraterrestial Intelligence)
"It wasn't all that expensive, but I still regard it as a waste of money."
Why do you care? It isn't your money. SETI has been funded by private donations since the 80s.