Tech world investing in helping E.T phone home
Over at UC Berkeley, there’s some dudes and dudettes who are hell bent on discovering what the eff is up there above us – we’re not talking angels here, rather, aliens.
One of those dudes is a Russian billionaire named Yuri Milner. He made his fortune investing in certain big name scompanies like Facebook and Twitter and now he’s spending (some of) it in an effort to find intelligent alien life. $100 million of it, to be precise. Wowza.
This money goes straight to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence research centre in Berkeley that has been looking for aliens since its inception in 1961.
Milner has called the project Breakthrough Listen and will be the largest scientific search for extraterrestrial life, in the expanse of the universe that will be studied, as well as the depth and detail of the data that will be collected and shared with the public.
How big is big? Well, beginning next year, and for the next 10 years, they’ll study the nearest million stars, nearest 100 galaxies, and the entire Milky Way galaxy and its billions of stars—a celestial expanse 10 times wider in scope than any previous research endeavors.
What’s really cool is that all data collected from the project will be made public for anyone to see, and Breakthrough Listen will offer a platform to developers to build applications to better analyze the celestial data.
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August 10, 2015 4:44 am
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