SETI's 100-Million-Channel Scan for Extraterrestrial Signal Put on Hold -- Where Does the Search Go From Here?

SETI's 100-Million-Channel Scan for Extraterrestrial Signal Put on Hold -- Where Does the Search Go From Here?

Funding for the SETI Institute has dried up, meaning the search for extraterrestrial intelligence lost one of its key drivers on the planet. In an letter dated April 22nd, reports the San Jose Mercury News, SETI Institute's CEO, Tom Pierson, reported that the array had to be put into "hibernation." The equipment will be maintained, but won't be able to operate -- the government funding simply isn't there. So the technology that was developed for the SETI antenna arrays that monitor 100 million channels simultaneously will no longer be transmitting that long search for signals from another advanced civilization in the Milky Way.