calikid
07-26-2015, 01:05 PM
Steven Hawking was against broadcasting our presence to ET, but sounds like he doesn't mind listening for ET.
Search for alien life gets $100M and Stephen Hawking's blessing
The search for intelligent life in the universe is getting an injection of resources, brains and money from Silicon Valley.
Tech investor Yuri Milner, alongside physicist Stephen Hawking and famed astrophysicist and cosmologist Lord Martin Rees, announced the Breakthrough Initatives on Monday.
Over the next 10 years, Milner will will invest $100 million in the Breakthrough Initiative. It will give scientists access to powerful technology, including some of the best telescopes in the world.
"The idea is to bring the Silicon Valley approach to the search," said Milner at an event announcing the program at the Royal Society in London. "That means an approach to data that is transparent, that is innovative, and that uses the problem-solving power of social networks."
Faster and more comprehensive than previous searches, Breakthrough Listen will be able to gather more data in a single day than any previous search gathered in an entire year, according to Milner. Its scope will include a million nearby stars, the galactic center, 100 nearby galaxies and the entire plane of the Milky Way. Story Continues (http://money.cnn.com/2015/07/20/technology/hawking-milner-aliens-breakthrough/index.html).
And for even more details, Wiki Breakthrough Listen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Listen)
Search for alien life gets $100M and Stephen Hawking's blessing
The search for intelligent life in the universe is getting an injection of resources, brains and money from Silicon Valley.
Tech investor Yuri Milner, alongside physicist Stephen Hawking and famed astrophysicist and cosmologist Lord Martin Rees, announced the Breakthrough Initatives on Monday.
Over the next 10 years, Milner will will invest $100 million in the Breakthrough Initiative. It will give scientists access to powerful technology, including some of the best telescopes in the world.
"The idea is to bring the Silicon Valley approach to the search," said Milner at an event announcing the program at the Royal Society in London. "That means an approach to data that is transparent, that is innovative, and that uses the problem-solving power of social networks."
Faster and more comprehensive than previous searches, Breakthrough Listen will be able to gather more data in a single day than any previous search gathered in an entire year, according to Milner. Its scope will include a million nearby stars, the galactic center, 100 nearby galaxies and the entire plane of the Milky Way. Story Continues (http://money.cnn.com/2015/07/20/technology/hawking-milner-aliens-breakthrough/index.html).
And for even more details, Wiki Breakthrough Listen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Listen)