More evidence that our foray into space wasn’t the beginning of our expansion into the Final Frontier but just the high tide of human expansion, which is now ebbing:

SETI Institute to shut down alien-seeking radio dishes
If E.T. phones Earth, he’ll get a “disconnect” signal.
Lacking the money to pay its operating expenses, Mountain View’s SETI Institute has pulled the plug on the renowned Allen Telescope Array, a field of radio dishes that scan the skies for signals from extraterrestrial civilizations.