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.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022