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SETI Running Out of Money
New submitter opusman writes "According to an Australian space analyst, SETI is running out of money. Despite needing only $2 million a year, a relatively small amount in space industry terms, they are facing a financial crisis. From the article: 'Getting on board a spacecraft is tricky. There are few places for professional astronauts. Even when Richard Branson and a group of other visionaries makes space tourism more affordable, it will still cost huge sums to fly. But getting a foothold in the greatest quest of all can be done for just a few tens of donated dollars. Which is why it beggars belief that the SETI quest is on its knees.'"
. . . the intelligent life will probably NOT want anything to do with us anyway.
They'll just avoid us, like tourists not stopping in a bad neighborhood.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Continuing to fund a search for extraterrestrial intelligence?
It calls into question the claims that terrestrial intelligence does exist, itself.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
No need for that. All they need to do is update the SETI@Home client (BOINC) to also mine for Bitcoins.
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." - K
human anatomy and reproduction.
So our first message to the rest of the universe is porn. Gotcha.
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