... led to its funding being withdrawn by the Congress, in 1981. However, this took only two years because in 1982, funding was restored. These events prompted formation of SETI League, Inc. in 1994, as a response to the cancellation of NASA SETI program by the Congress. The aim was to fund some projects such as pioneering of the backyard conversion of the ... came from a famous physicist Stephen Hawking. In his book A Brief History of Time, he considered the act of alerting alien intelligence of human existence as foolish. He referred to the gap existing among human beings including how hu...

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