SETI Runs Out Of Dough

[Atheist-Lite]

Perhaps we should organise a whip round? although maybe Hawking was right and we should just drink to our lucky escape from the green tentacles?

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/ ... 2011-04-24

The hunt for extraterrestrial life just lost one of its best tools. The Allen Telescope Array (ATA), a field of radio dishes in rural northern California built to seek out transmissions from distant alien civilizations, has been shuttered, at least temporarily, as its operators scramble to find a way to continue to fund it.

(continued or is that discontinued?)