C'mon. What has SETI actually accomplished in all the time that it has spent scouring the static for patterns? NOTHING. When/If aliens decide to present themselves it probably won't be because they accidentally blurted out some frequency that was picked up by SETI. It will probably be either by delegation or by an armada of Earth scorching death ships. Why don't we save a buck and let SETI drift off into the romantic imaginary world of what could have been... There are more possibilities for it in that realm than the real one.

I didn't even remember that thing until I read this post... That really takes me way back. I am only 28 and left Ontario before the '90s but it was definitely there until the late 80's. I am feeling very nostalgic...

Forget about the fact the we are racing towards an barter based economy where wealth will be measured by lumps of coal and sacks of grain hoarded in your garage as we burn oil cans for warmth in the wintertime surrounded by the great withering monuments built by our once great civilization. IF ONLY WE HAD BUILT THE ELECTRIC CAR SOONER!! Maybe this could have all been averted. Forgive me if I am wrong but this whole bailout deal is sorta to prevent us from ending up in a post-cataclysm type of Mad Max like future. Why has an affordable electric car been chosen as the imaginary panacea for the systemic failure that is rotting away the foundation of our lives?

And those five banks all have deposit insurance... How's all that banking competition going to help you out when your mickey mouse mom n'pop bank fails and doesn't have deposit insurance? Too many banks in the US has left them substantially worse off in this crisis.