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.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022