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University research center will search for extraterrestrial intelligence
Posted on 2/28/19 at 8:24 pm
Posted on 2/28/19 at 8:24 pm
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The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is getting a home base. On 1 March, Pennsylvania State University in State College will announce the first contributions to a campaign that hopes to raise $110 million for the new Penn State Extraterrestrial Intelligence (PSETI) Center with endowed professorships and a degree-granting graduate program. It would be one of just a few academic SETI research centers and, if plans are realized, it could be the first to offer courses from the undergraduate to Ph.D. level. Some astronomers say it would provide a badly needed boost to a subdiscipline that has long suffered from neglect.
“There really isn’t an academic ecosystem for the field as a whole,” says Penn State astronomer Jason Wright, who will serve as the PSETI Center head. “You can’t work on it if you can’t hire students and postdocs.”
Financial backing for SETI research has been scarce ever since 1993, when the U.S. Congress banned NASA from funding it. “We became the four-letter word at NASA,” recalls astronomer Jill Tarter, a co-founder of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, one of the few other centers to support SETI research with nongovernmental funds.
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is getting a home base. On 1 March, Pennsylvania State University in State College will announce the first contributions to a campaign that hopes to raise $110 million for the new Penn State Extraterrestrial Intelligence (PSETI) Center with endowed professorships and a degree-granting graduate program. It would be one of just a few academic SETI research centers and, if plans are realized, it could be the first to offer courses from the undergraduate to Ph.D. level. Some astronomers say it would provide a badly needed boost to a subdiscipline that has long suffered from neglect.
“There really isn’t an academic ecosystem for the field as a whole,” says Penn State astronomer Jason Wright, who will serve as the PSETI Center head. “You can’t work on it if you can’t hire students and postdocs.”
Financial backing for SETI research has been scarce ever since 1993, when the U.S. Congress banned NASA from funding it. “We became the four-letter word at NASA,” recalls astronomer Jill Tarter, a co-founder of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, one of the few other centers to support SETI research with nongovernmental funds.
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Posted on 2/28/19 at 8:25 pm to DavidTheGnome
They're already here.
Posted on 2/28/19 at 8:26 pm to DavidTheGnome
Hope there are some triple breasted alien chicks who want to hang out 
Posted on 2/28/19 at 8:28 pm to Al R Bammer
They’re out there for sure, just gotta find em
Posted on 2/28/19 at 8:29 pm to DavidTheGnome
The search for intelligent life in at least half the nation alone is not bearing fruit. Moar gubment freeshit does not encourage brain usage, it discourages anything and everything productive.
Posted on 2/28/19 at 8:29 pm to DavidTheGnome
Posted on 2/28/19 at 8:29 pm to DavidTheGnome
Imagine getting a PhD and spending your entire career listening to noise. OK, I mean inputting your data into some software hoping to find a pattern. But nope, it's just noise. 
Posted on 2/28/19 at 8:42 pm to DavidTheGnome
They’ll make first contact once we’ve realized a truly global one world government based on communism. Everyone knows this.
Posted on 2/28/19 at 8:42 pm to DavidTheGnome
I'm sure Mr Sandusky is itching to be on the middle school recruiting team
Posted on 2/28/19 at 9:15 pm to DavidTheGnome
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The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is getting a home base.
I heard they have been looking ever since James shot Alec Trevelyan off of the catwalk. I'm sure the resale value takes a hit with a history of splattered terrorists.
Posted on 2/28/19 at 9:17 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
Hey, at least it's better than researching the 79th gender.
Posted on 2/28/19 at 9:18 pm to DavidTheGnome
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Posted on 2/28/19 at 9:19 pm to DavidTheGnome
Need to stop looking into space and into the other dimensions. DMT studies and the like.
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