Spending Black Hole, Religious Void

Thomas DiLorenzo reports that "the federal government (NASA) and the state of California" have "realiz[ed] that the taxpayers’ pockets are not bottomless after all" — Government Funding of Space Alien Detection Satellites Has Been Cut —and Mark Shea rightly observes, "What drives the interest in ET is, in large measure, a debased eschatology" — SETI Faces Budget Cuts.