Donors help re-open mothballed {radio} telescopes searching for ET (BBC)

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By Judith Burns
Science reporter, BBC News

Telescopes looking for extra terrestrial intelligence should re-open within weeks after donors replaced income lost in public funding cuts.

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute, had to shut the $30m (£18.3m) Allen Telescope Array in April.

Donors, including actress Jodie Foster, raised more than $200,000 (£122,000).

The 42 radio telescopes, in northern California, search space for potential signals from alien life forms.

Ms Foster was one of more than 2,400 people who contributed to the fund to save the Allen Telescope Array. She played the lead role of an astronomer looking for evidence of aliens in the 1997 film Contact.
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more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14544953




Glad to see Americans stepping in where our gov't has abrogated responsibility.

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1. Awesome! nt