astronomer@mailinator.com wrote:

Johan Plane wrote:

I agree with you that it's sad when the US Congress stops funding for political reasons,
however the way university science projects are funded in the US is alien to me since, here
in Sweden, all such projects are either funded by the state or through specific trust funds
with donated money. In this case S@H would probably be considered as basic/fundamental
research and as such get governmental funding (without the political influences). The
governmental funding of science is granted by a non-political board on basis of science
alone.

Sweden science funding sounds good.  I wonder why there aren't any
Swedish SETI projects with government funding?  After all, an
enterprising Swedish student could set-up a S@H system and then claim
funding for it.  You would think with such a liberal funding attitude,
Sweden would be the SETI capital of the world...

Simply because Sweden has no national space programme of any significance, hence such a project
would be out-of-line over here. The scientific space programmes we have concerns, mostly, of
research of Aurora Borealis and magnetic fields, however I must admit I'm not so updated on what
they're doing up north in Kiruna.

Johan