Budget Cuts Postpone Alien Seeking Telescopes

The San Jose Mercury News reports the SETI Institute has put its program to find aliens on hold. On April 22, SETI proposed a letter sent to supporters of their program that they were going to put alien seeking on hold. Tom Pierson, SETI's CEO made this announcment at the beginnin of this week. The Allen Telescope Array has been put into hibernation due to the shortfalls for funding the operations of the Hat Creek Radio Observatory where the telescope is located.

I mean i think that this is something cool to try and see if there are really aliens out there. But i think there is other stuff that we need to be worrying about beisides trying to find other life besides ourselves. Its kool to get out there and explore other life, but i think that it was a good idea to put the operation on hold. I hope that they succeed in trying to find alien life but i think that now is not the time to do it.

Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/04/26/135746059/budget-cuts-shutdown-setis-alien-seeking-telescopes?ft=1&f=1001

Pop Star To President

Michel Martelly was very troubled and that everything had been done for him to lose at the polls. He thought that his dreams of leading Haiti out of devastation was surely over, but after four months of recounts and reviews, a runoff changed everything. The unexpected candidate is not ready to take his seat of presidency over Haiti.

This was very unexpected because Martelly never considered himself to be a politician. He's better known under the alias, "Sweet Mickey" which was a kompa singer who overwhelmed his fans on stage with his bad-boy image. He was the type to curse and swing alcohol bottles across the stage at his concerts and even mooned his audience on occasions. Martelly revealed that it was an image that only betrayed on-stage not in his personal life.

Their was a percieved lack of progress going on in Haiti thus far, and the government backed Jude Celestin. But the people said Martelly was a fresh face for politics, and would be a face to help stop the destruction in Haiti. Martelly won by a landslide with 67.6% of the votes, defeating his challenger who had 31.5% of votes. Martelly seemed really excited and said, "Haiti is on its way to a revolution." This should be good news for the people of Haiti because they have seen so much devastation, so maybe this will be a good ending for them.

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/04/05/haiti.martelly/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29