Cutbacks Curtail SETI Institute Search for Alien Radio Signals

摘要

Budget cuts have forced the Search for Extraterrestrial Intel-ligence (SETI) Institute — a nonprofit research organization based in Mountain View, Calif. — to shut down one of its chief alien-hunting tools for a while.SETI's Allen Telescope Ar-ray (ATA), a set of 42 radio tel-escopes in northern California that scan the skies for poten-tial alien radio signals, has been shut down since April 15, officials said.