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COWED AND BEATEN. “NASA learned its lesson: since then it has provided very little support for the field. To the best of our knowledge, since 1993 there have been four NASA grants and five NSF grants to support actual searches for extraterrestrial technology, totalling $4.7 million. Four of these grants totalling $2.6 million supported the development of radio instrumentation and SETI@Home, and the other five totalling $2.1 million supported science and operations of radio telescopes. The first of these grants began in 2001, meaning that​ the total federal expenditure on SETI in the past 18 years has been about $260,000 per year including overhead, or between 1–2 FTEs on average.” https://lnkd.in/djnMhU6 View in LinkedIn

EFFECTS ON INSECTS. “The significantly altered gene expression of CRY1 and CRY2 under the NZMF suggest their developmental stage-specific patterns and potential upstream location in magnetic response. Our study suggests an important role of the geomagnetic field (GMF) in modulating development and physiology of insects.” (NZMF = near zero magnetic field). https://lnkd.in/ggMJNzs View in LinkedIn

THE END TO THE SEARCH. “In October 1992 NASA launched the High Resolution Microwave Survey (HRMS), only to see it suddenly and surprisingly cut in September 1993 via a successful, last-minute amendment by Senator Richard Bryan, who proudly announced “This hopefully will be the end of Martian hunting at the taxpayer’s expense”, and more quietly made it known that if future NASA budgets contained a SETI program, then the entire agency budget would be at risk.” https://lnkd.in/djnMhU6 View in LinkedIn

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NOT INTERESTED! “Lobbying by Carl Sagan and others, along with careful bureaucratic and political persuasion, eventually restored the stature of the program, and by 1988 NASA was ready once again to begin searching in the radio despite some Congressional opposition.” https://lnkd.in/djnMhU6 View in LinkedIn

DETECTION OF NOXIOUS STIMULI. “Here we show that nociception in mice is altered by a 30 Hz field with a peak amplitude more than 1000 times weaker than the static component of the geomagnetic field. When mice are exposed to an ambient magnetic field-shielded environment 1 h a day for five consecutive days, a strong analgesic (i.e. antinociception) response is induced by day 5. introduction of a 30 Hz time-varying field as weak as 33 nT has a strong effect, reducing the analgesic effect by 60 per cent. Such sensitivity is surprisingly high.” http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/10/81/20121046.short View in LinkedIn

HALL OF SHAME OVER SETI. “By the 1970’s, NASA was considering investing significant resources into the field and commissioned a detailed study on a “maximal” radio SETI program, Project Cyclops. The high cost of that vision and the baseless conflation of the endeavor with UFOlogy, science fiction, and tabloid fodder led to political troubles. In 1978 Senator William Proxmire gave the NASA SETI program one of his “Golden Fleece” awards (for “fleecing” the taxpayer for a frivolous project) and successfully ended it.” https://lnkd.in/djnMhU6 View in LinkedIn

EFFECTS ON OOCYTES. “According to previous reports, cell death induction in the oocyte was observed only in the case of microwave exposure and not after exposure to other stress factors as toxic chemicals or food deprivation. Now it is also observed for the first time after extremely low frequency magnetic field exposure.” https://lnkd.in/d38KfZb View in LinkedIn

ONLY SIXTY YEARS. “Modern SETI—now also known as the search for technosignatures—began around 1960.” https://lnkd.in/djnMhU6 View in LinkedIn

EFFECTS ON FLIES. “In the present experiments, the effect of 50-Hz alternating magnetic field on Drosophila melanogaster reproduction was studied...exposed to three different intensities of the extremely low frequency magnetic field (1, 11, and 21 G) continuously during the first 5 days of their adult lives...The magnetic field was found to decrease reproduction by up to 4.3 %. The effect increased with increasing field intensities. The decline in reproductive capacity was found to be due to severe DNA damage (DNA fragmentation) and consequent cell death induction.” https://lnkd.in/d38KfZb View in LinkedIn