The SETI Institute is shutting down a radio telescope array designed to search for extraterrestrial signals because of a budget shortfall. My Altairian overlords are actually quite relieved. They were were worried that humans might start receiving messages from the Stellar Alliance warning us of the Altairians’ invasion plans. Of course, those warnings were sent a thousand years ago and the Altairians have since, er, assimilated the Alliance. Still, those messages might have set off a panic. My masters can certainly deal with a planetary freak-out, but their methods can be messy. Now that humanity has gone off-line, we can enjoy a few more years of blissful ignorance before you all get hauled off to the asteroid mines and I get my genetically engineered harem.
