Listening for Life from Outer Space

Government Expenditures Just Dying to be Cut

The fiscal crisis with the various states has produced significant cuts in vital programs, and many deserving recipients of state aid, like students, the elderly, the sick etc are being deprived of critical services.

Not all of this is bad though, as Business Week reports here.

State Budget Cut Casualties

 

 

California

 

If E.T. calls but no one picks up the phone, do aliens exist? An array of 42 radio antennae that listen for extraterrestrial life was turned off in April because California’s Hat Creek Radio Observatory lost some federal and state funding. The observatory, which was established during the Cold War to search for extraterrestrial intelligence, is also seeking the origins of the universe. Photorgapher: Ben Margot/AP Photo

 

Is there intelligent life in outer space?  There must be, you don't see them wasting billions on trying to find us, do you? (The Dismal Political Economist believes the old jokes, particularly those not original with him, are the best).