{"id":2276,"date":"2011-04-26T20:52:20","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T00:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=2276"},"modified":"2011-04-26T20:52:20","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T00:52:20","slug":"government-shuts-down-allen-telescope-array-citing-lack-of-funding-seti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/04\/26\/government-shuts-down-allen-telescope-array-citing-lack-of-funding-seti\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 Government Shuts down Allen Telescope Array Citing Lack of Funding (SETI)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mercury News<\/a>:<\/p>\n

But funding for SETI has long been a headache for E.T.-seekers. NASA bankrolled some early projects, but in 1994, Sen. Richard Bryan of Nevada convinced Congress that it wasn’t worth the cost, calling it the “Great Martian Chase” and complaining that not a single flying saucer had applied for FAA approval.<\/p>\n

However, successful private funding came from donors such as Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, allowing SETI to raise $50 million to build the 42 dishes.<\/p>\n

Plans called for construction of 350 individual radio antennas, all working\u00a0in concert. But what’s lacking now is funding to support the day-to-day costs of running the dishes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sad news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mercury News: But funding for SETI has long been a headache for E.T.-seekers. NASA bankrolled some early projects,…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-AI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2401,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/05\/23\/valley-hype-meets-real-world-hype\/","url_meta":{"origin":2276,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 Valley-Hype Meets Real World Hype","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"May 23, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Alexia Tsotsis: So it turns out that almost nobody wants people to check out their purchases. 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