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...Leigh says that the bulk of SETI's budget goes toward "electricity and a phone line we installed." The projects costs approximately $20,000 a year...
According to the Harvard Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Web page (http://mc.harvard.edu/seti/), the search first began in 1978 with scientists listening to signals transmitted from a 1,000-foot dish in Arecibo, Puerto Rico...
...project had moved on-line. Darren L. Leigh, who wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on the equipment used in the Harvard SETI project and who has served as one of Horowitz's research assistants since 1992, helped build computers that screen the frequencies and then "send you e-mail if it has a possibly right signal," Leigh says. This project was called Billion Channel Extraterrestrial Assay, or BETA and is the system still in operation today...
...Harvard SETI project received funding from NASA in 1991 until appropriations were axed by Senator Richard H. Bryan (D-Nev.) in 1994. To fund BETA, Leigh says the group relied on support from private foundations such as the Planetary Society and on sample parts donated by companies like Hewlett Packard, Micron and Intel...
That is melancholy news not only for Wirth and other members of the Pioneer team but also for astronomer Frank Drake and his crew at the nearby Mountain View headquarters of seti. There, scientists hoping to pick up radio signals from a distant civilization have been using Pioneer's signals to test the efficacy of their detection systems. Says Drake: "It's been our prime diagnostic tool...