Bummer! I realize times are tough financially, but seems like if we can still manage to afford video games and junk we could manage to keep the line open for ET. I'm gonna sign up for a membership on their site and hopefully help out.
Bummer! I realize times are tough financially, but seems like if we can still manage to afford video games and junk we could manage to keep the line open for ET. I'm gonna sign up for a membership on their site and hopefully help out. "
Remember Carl Sagan? That obnoxious fuck was a champion bullshit artist.
To be honest, I'm surprised SETI is still in business. My planet has already proven there's no intelligent life on Earth.
Yeah, I was talking to Kyreo about this last night. It's pretty sad, but I can appreciate that there are other things we should be expending resources on.
This is one of those times where I wished I was Bill Gates. I would happily donate five million. That's like nothing to the billions and billions he has.
And you just know the SECOND SETI shuts down, an alien signal is going to bounce off the dishes unheard. Then, thinking us rude for playing the interstellar equivalent of Ding Dong Ditch, they will inevitably come down and blow up our most recognizable landmarks.
" Damn, I've put hundreds of hours of compute-time through BOINC too.
@RudeJohn said:
Remember Carl Sagan? That obnoxious fuck was a champion bullshit artist."
Well, you live up to your name at least.
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Hey, i didn't say that I didn't like the guy. He was certainly likeable. But that sum'bitch could shovel it far beyond the ability of ordinary hoo-mons. ;-)
Good. SETI is bullshit. They're never gonna find aliens with fucking radios in a universe where it's not possible to travel far enough to find alien life in the first place.
This is yet another sad event in a long list of sad events since the last Apollo missions. Where might we be today if we kept pushing the edge of our space knowledge. Would we be on the moon today with a large base? Would we be launching rockets from the moon for Mars with an actual plan to setting foot on there? I will forever be sad and angered that we let politics destroy the space age.
And to all that hippy crap about having more important things is a load of shit. We won't ever fix the problems on Earth until we develop the tech needed to explore the stars and we won't do that by sitting here.
When we're talking about economics, me and you buying video games, and SETI paying for equipment, employees and services to detect aliens aren't really the same thing. Still, even if I agree that perhaps it's time they closed their doors, I am a little sad to see them go.
Properly sad news. Any time that any area of science is chosen to be ignored, we make a bad decision for our planet. If you had any idea how little funding goes into things like SETI and NASA from the government, you would spit-take all over your keyboard.
Science and the pursuit of knowledge for our own betterment are humanity's only hope of ever reaching beyond the confines of our solar system. We just took one step back.
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