SETI Raises Enough Cash To Go Live Again

The launch will actually happen next month, thanks to the multitude of generous crowdsourced backers who donated $207,000 total.If your memory serves you well, remember that SETI’s financial woes began in April this year when funding from the U.S.government dried up.Very unfortunate, as it meant the prolonged search for extraterrestrial life that the SETI program represented had to be shut down.

So the people who run SETI turned to the ma*ses, who showed them a lot of love in the ensuing two months since the campaign began.An interesting factoid is among those who gave money were Jodi Foster (who was amazing in the SETI-centric movie в