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Is SETI still operating or did they lose funding?

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SETI, as an organization, has never stopped. Funding for SETI has always been shaky. As long as there is someone looking for life on another planet, there will be a SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence). When the day comes that we discover that we are alone (or not) then we will always be looking. read more

SETI is a concept, not a program. There are two active US SETI stations in operation. The ATA in Northern California which is on tenuous funding grounds and SETI Ne t (my station) which is fully funded and operates every day. Check it out. read more

If they are ridiculous then a null result is still a result and SETI would be relevant, not in that it found alien life as intended, but in that it shows that maybe some of those assumption were wrong and shouldn't be made again in future attempts to find alien life. read more

Any loss of funding, an NSF official said, would depend on the details of the agreement, which the NSF has not seen. Also absent from the announcement was the SETI Institute itself. read more

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