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> The quote: "if everybody contributed just 3 extra cents on their 1040 tax forms, we could find out if we have cosmic company." suggests that the org
by noibl 15y ago
> The quote: "if everybody contributed just 3 extra cents on their 1040 tax
forms, we could find out if we have cosmic company." suggests that the
organization is focused on government funding, rather than individual donors
It also suggests that the problem of finding intelligent life is basically a financial one.
s/we could/there is a very slim chance that &/
- watchandwait 15y agoOr, we could take the cost of one day of our Libyan Kinetic Military Action ($100 million) and fund this program for a generation.
- ssharp 15y agoOr we could take the 2.5 million for SETI and help people get access to safe drinking water, food, and vaccines. After all, people on Earth suffering should be a higher priority than looking for spacemen, right? edit: This might have come across as snarky - that wasn't my intention. I just wanted to show that you can argue that any government spending can be spent better, and/or more morally, somewhere else.
- burgerbrain 15y ago"After all, people on Earth suffering should be a higher priority than looking for spacemen, right?" Of course not. That line of reasoning is always flawed, as it is presumably always typed on a computer that was purchased with funds that weren't used for free water/food/vaccines.
- mrleinad 15y agoOnce worldwide military funding goes down to the level of the rest of budgets everywhere, we can talk about which one deserves more money than the other. Until then, anything is a joke. A sad joke. And we're the clowns.