Alien Telescope Array is shut down.

April 27, 2011 was a sad day — a day when, for lack of a paltry $5 million, SETI ceased its search for extraterrestrial life.

“There is a huge irony,” said SETI Director Jill Tarter, “that a time when we discover so many planets to look at, we don’t have the operating funds to listen.”

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