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ABOUT SAND AND OSTRICHES. The cumulative funding in the entire history of humanity to conduct a thorough, serious, effort to search for life in the universe is under $200 million, or flying a single F-22 Raptor military jet for about one and a half months. Stephen Hawking: “In an infinite Universe, there must be other life. There is no bigger question. It is time to commit to finding the answer.” https://lnkd.in/dfV6qM9 View in LinkedIn

THE TOTAL INVESTMENT for a search for life beyond Earth, by back of envelope calculations, is truly minuscule, and we have amply illustrated the stunning lack of curiosity that the human species has about this subject. It has been suggested that this is due to governments being fearful of the consequences to economies based on non-sustainable technologies but there is no evidence either way on this. https://lnkd.in/dKzsrBv View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE spends this and next weekend highlighting an article titled: “How Much SETI Has Been Done? Finding Needles in the n-dimensional Cosmic Haystack” (2018) by Jason T. Wright, Shubham Kanodia, and Emily Lubar of the Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, The Pennsylvania State University. This is the most important question of the 21st century, a true game changer for humanity. https://lnkd.in/dKzsrBv View in LinkedIn

Required reading on cold winter afternoons. View in LinkedIn

THE FACTS. “However, this is not the case. Despite the passage of nearly 60 years since the first radio SETI searches, very little actual searching has been done, compared to the amount needed to rule out the presence of a even a large number of "loud" beacons.” https://lnkd.in/dKzsrBv View in LinkedIn

EPITAPH ON A TYRANT" "(W. H. Auden - 1907-1973)" "" "“Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after," "And the poetry he invented was easy to understand;" "He knew human folly like the back of his hand," "And was greatly interested in armies and fleets;" "When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter," "And when he cried the little children died in the streets.” https://lnkd.in/dntzTtr View in LinkedIn