Answering SETI

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As of yesterday, its telescopes are back online thanks to private donations, notably;

"Contact" star Jodie Foster was among donors helping to revive the 42 radio telescope dishes at a key California institute searching for extraterrestrial life.

Space Daily 8-15, http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Jodie ... e_999.html

Interesting note at the bottom:

The group is putting its hopes behind getting a US Air Force contract to track orbiting space debris that could damage satellites and the International Space Station.

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Another article saying they're back on line:
http://news.discovery.com/space/setista ... gn=rssnws1

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The Obama administration claims the government has no evidence of extraterrestrial life
USA Today, 11-6-11 – “Obama team: No evidence of extraterrestrial life,” http://content.usatoday.com/communities ... ial-life/1.

"The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race," writes an Obama administration official on the White House website.

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In response to these facts, many affirmatives have said "Yes, SETI is back online, but the Alien Telescope Array isn't."

Well, now it is:
SETI Institute, 12-5-11 - "SETI Search Resumes at Allen Telescope Array, Targeting New Planets," http://www.seti.org/node/905

The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is once again searching planetary systems for signals that would be evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence. Among its first targets are some of the exoplanet candidates recently discovered by NASA’s Kepler space telescope.