within the category "yeah, right"

... falls the new article purporting that extra-terrestrial life will be discovered within the next 20 years. Umm, sure. Evidently that claim was made by the SETI Institute's senior astronomer Seth Shostak. ... Wait a minute. There's a "SETI Institute"? My tax payments (all $4.68) better not be paying for that.

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