WKDQ - THE TRI-STATE'S COUNTRY STATION » funding http://wkdq.com Sat, 25 May 2013 01:00:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Searching For Aliens – Too Expensive http://wkdq.com/searching-for-aliens-too-expensive/ http://wkdq.com/searching-for-aliens-too-expensive/#comments Thu, 28 Apr 2011 10:13:51 +0000 Jon Prell http://wkdq.com/?p=5426 Since 2007, astronomers at the SETI Institute in Northern California have been scanning the great beyond for signs of alien life.

However, due to a decrease in the funding the institute receives from NASA and other government sources, the institute will have to shut down the powerful bank of 42 radio dishes that it uses to target unexplored planets.

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