Jodie Foster helps save SETI

By Robbie Graham Silver Screen Saucers

Jodie Foster in Contact (1997)

The actress Jodie Foster has chipped in to a $200,000 collective donation to the SETI institute in an effort to restart its "Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence." SETI's long held goal of detecting signs of intelligent ET life by scanning the heavens was obstructed recently when budget cuts under the Obama Administration shut down the Allen Telescope Array - SETI's primary ET search tool. SETI now hopes to bring it back online ASAP and to resume its cosmic search.

Foster starred in the 1997 movie Contact, based on the novel by Carl Sagan, in which a SETI scientist discovers an ET signal...