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Microsoft's Paul Allen Funds ET Search

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the if-you-got-it-use-it dept.

Chris Gondek writes "Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, one of the richest men on Earth, today pledged to donate $US13.5 million ($17.99 million) for research into extra-terrestrial life. With the contribution, Allen will have given $US25 million ($33.32 million) for construction of the Allen Telescope Array (ATA), a network of 350 radio telescopes being built to find signs of life in space, said Thomas Pierson, director of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute."

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  1. Re:Where is article writed located? by corbettw · · Score: 1, Troll

    Yeah, but the blurb is on an American site, you'd think the editors would convert the amounts into US dollars and leave it at that.

    Nevermind that other countries shouldn't be using "$" for their currency to start with (the origin of that symbol was writing a "U" over an "S", doesn't really make sense for other countries to us it, huh?)

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  2. If we only had real progressive taxation, we could by Cryofan · · Score: 2, Troll

    we could tax 70% or more of Allen's money, which would yield billions. THen we could not only fund interesting science like searching for aliens, but we could also fund science research to cure cancer and heart disease and old age. And wouldn't THAT be nice.

    Pull your heads out of your asses, fellow Americans: social democracy and progressive taxation is the way to go, not corporate capitalism and flat rate taxation.....

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  3. What is this "Atlas Shrugged" of which you speak? by Cryofan · · Score: 0, Troll

    Gee, another Randroid fanboy, and on Slashdot, no less. Who wudda thunk?

    Um...yeah, I read that _Atlas_Shrugged_ already....yeeeeears ago. And The_Foundationhead_, too.

    And I read Schulman...etc.

    And I have read Heinlein...The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, etc., etc....

    Here is a suggestion for you: try to expand your literary range a bit....

    Have you read Steinbeck?

    And some of the best thinkers are writing right now--not every great thinker is from the past. Have you read Chomsky?

    You might wanna even come up with some ideas of your OWN!

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