SETI Institute suspends search for aliens

Mercury News ^ | 4/25/11 | Lisa M. Krieger

[Nowhere Man]

We need to find a way to find private fund for this.

[Persevero]

Well, I sure don’t want taxpayer dollars funding it.

[Lurker]

We need to find a way to find private fund for this.

I suggest a bake sale.

[Cicero]

Obama looked at it and said, “No votes there!”

[wastedyears]

There’s one in the White House.

[max americana]

let them try the Star Trek, Star Wars, Stargate and sci-fi geek forums..

[gitmo]

This is a profound search, it believes, because it explains our place among the stars.

So far, all it's explained is that we are alone. Very alone. In a very big place.

[Ron C.]

Hey - they don’t need any array to find aliens - they’re lots of them right here in California... what they need to find is a fast way to send them back to where they came from!

[stboz]

"There ain't nobody here, Lieutenant." "Now, why don't he write?"

"Dances with Wolves"

[PGR88]

due to inadequate government support.

Wow - we actually found something the Gov't does NOT spend money on....

[Cringing Negativism Network]

They could look for that birth certificate...

[JoeProBono]

[AnotherUnixGeek]

the array was put into "hibernation," safe but non-functioning, due to inadequate government support.

Convince Congress that aliens might be interested in purchasing US debt, should take care of funding for decades.

In the meantime, interested private citizens should step up to cover the operating costs. The amount spent on endeavors like this is relatively trivial, but a search for extra-terrestrial life is an obvious target to eliminate when things are this bad.

[21twelve]

“I suggest a bake sale.”

I have cookbook I found at a garage sale. “How to Serve Man”.
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And is there anybody else creeped out about why they aren’t SEARCHING for the aliens anymore!?

[garjog]

Don't we have some stimulus money left around somewhere?

[Loyal Sedition]

If you accept Einstein’s theories we have been wasting money on this all along.

Even if we hear some one, we probably could not answer, and they would not be likely to visit with the time involved for the trip.

Which might be the only thing to save us.

[null and void]

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[Atlas Sneezed]

We could tax science fiction movies.

Or Clearasil.

[null and void]

And is there anybody else creeped out about why they aren’t SEARCHING for the aliens anymore!?

We know they exist now.

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