The cost of joining the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has
just dropped dramatically. A SETI station capable of picking up messages from
space used to cost $2000. Now a New Jersey company, Down East Microwave,
has developed a search station that costs $200.
SETI was forced to go private in 1993, after the US government stopped
funding it. The searchers report “phenomenal” growth of interest in Britain, and
next month will hold a conference in Stockton-on-Tees.
