(Jason H.) wrote in message . com...
(Jason H.) wrote in message . com...

Perhaps Dr. Backus might make a final post,...
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and here it is

So does this cover all of the goals of the original NASA High
Resolution Microwave Survey (HRMS)? I wonder what the original
pre-congressional cut projected budget was versus what was actually
spent (kinda tend to think it was much much cheaper without a
government bureaucracy, but also slower without the money.) Also,
even though I (and perhaps others) was bitter about the congressional
cuts, they seem to have been fortuitous in retrospect, leading to the
SETI Institute's many life-science investigations, and causing Phoenix
and ATA to rise from HRMS's ashes (perhaps a confirmation of what
Henry Ford once said "Failure is only the opportunity to begin again
more intelligently.").

Regards, Jason H.

We'll come close to the goals for the HRMS Targeted Search but,
unfortunately not the HRMS Sky Survey. The equipment developed for
NASA's Sky Survey was partially funded by the Deep Space Network and
couldn't be loaned.

I'll be compiling statistics after Project Phoenix completes
observations at Arecibo on March 4.

The SETI Institute was founded in 1984 and was doing "life science"
research since 1985. When the NASA HRMS was cancelled in October
1993, the SETI Institute had something like 15 other research grants
or cooperative agreements from NASA. These other projects were all
"life in the universe" research.