{"id":34847,"date":"2011-05-01T13:00:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/the-cost-of-seti-infographic-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2011-05-01T13:00:53","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T13:00:53","slug":"the-cost-of-seti-infographic-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/the-cost-of-seti-infographic-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"The Cost of SETI: Infographic | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"

John at μcosmologist has created an interesting infographic<\/a> depicting how much it would cost to run SETI from one year ($2.5 million) versus various other things we spend money on. In the graphic, each radio dish represents $2.5 million. Here’s a (small) piece of it:<\/p>

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[Click to enalienate.]<\/p>

The whole thing is much larger, and you really need to see it. Especially the bit about how much people spend on Starbucks. Yegads.<\/p>

John made this because of SETI having to mothball the Allen Telescope Array<\/a>, and I strongly suspect because people were trying to say there are better things to spend money on. I’ll tell you, I think that argument is a crock. First off, it’s a false dichotomy<\/a>; we can afford to do more than what we need to survive. And moreover, there is always<\/em> something better to spend money on, yet we still seem to be able to justify (or rationalize) the way we spend the money we do. <\/p>

In the United States alone we spend five times as much on tobacco products as we do on the entirety of NASA<\/a>. How’s that for rationalization? And what we ...<\/p>

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John at μcosmologist has created an interesting infographic depicting how much it would cost to run SETI from one year ($2.5 million) versus various other things we spend money on. In the graphic, each radio dish represents $2.5 million. Here’s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}