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Search for alien signals stalls for want of cash

Microsoft co-founder withholds funding from radio telescope.

An ambitious radio array project that will join the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is running into money problems.

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Posted by Nicola Jones on October 27, 2006 06:30 PM |

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