SETI Gains Respect, NASA Funding

securitas writes "After having its funding cut off by Congress a decade ago, the SETI program has just received a NASA five-year grant (Google link) to participate as a lead team in the NASA Astrobiology Institute, which investigates the origin and future of life in the universe. For more information, see the Astrobiology Institute's announcement and the NASA press release."

Comments

Re:Chance or Design?

[Anonymous Coward]

"in one of his books parts of a continent are created 30000 years old two weeks ago, and in another he mentions the Creator installing perfectly faked fossils to fool future investigators."

I believe it goes something like "dinosaur fossils were an elaborate joke that geologists simply haven't got yet". Anybody got the exact quote? I think it's from Good Omens (brilliant book btw).

Nothing New

[Anonymous Coward]

We are fundinng a fictitious president 400k a year.

We are funding a fictitious war over 100 million.

We are paying congress people to tell us fictitiously that they are working for us.

So I don't see why its news that we are paying to find ET on the fictitious idea that we ever will.

Re:this is great news

[FroMan]

Interesting? It sounds like someone has been spending too much time watching star trek to me.

Had he thrown in any comments about phasers, holodecks, or klingons it might have been a funny comment.

As far as planets discovered outside our solar system, I thought we have only found gas giants or round'a'bout size. I'd hardly call those livable for humans.