SETI public: Senator William Proxmire

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From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Wed Dec 21 2005 - 09:36:38 PST

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    On December 15 former Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin died at the age
    of 90. Proxmire was no friend of the space program, and in 1979 he gave
    one his famous “golden fleece” awards for wasteful government spending to
    NASA for its research in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence
    (SETI). A few years later he was instrumental in stopping government support
    for SETI.

    But Proxmire also provided The Planetary Society with one of its greatest
    victories, and consequently earned the respect of Carl Sagan and the
    organization for his willingness to listen.

    The rest is here:

    http://planetary.org/news/2005/1216_Society_Marks_Passing_of_SETI_Critic.html

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