This won't end well ...

Due to our budget crisis across the country, budgets and "non-essential" programs are getting cut.  Like our monitoring of space:

"SETI CEO Tom Pierson sent an April 22 letter to donors saying the telescope array had been put into "hibernation," Randall said. Pierson's letter stated in part, "Starting this week, the equipment is unavailable for normal observations and is being maintained in a safe state by a significantly reduced staff."

The Allen Telescope Array will resume operations by 2013, when SETI's new round of funding goes into effect, Randall said. The funding will cover the project until 2018, she said. In the meantime, SETI is searching for quick cash."

In case you haven't seen an alien movie, but they all start with SETI monitoring space and finding some space craft, asteroid, etc. I guess we will just have to be surprised when the aliens attack ... personally, I'm going to hang out near Will Smith, Bruce Willis or Aaron Eckhart.  They will save us when the aliens attack. 

Speaking of aliens check this out ... http://youtu.be/iIW2cLOgMl8 ... aliens on the moon. Maybe that is why Neil and Buzz are so strange.