Hunters of extraterrestrial intelligence are celebrating! Russian billionaire Yuri Milner financed SETI with $ 100 million.
During an event at the Royal Society in London earlier today, Yuri Milner along with physicist and cosmologist stephen hawking, from the stage announced a new Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI, funding initiative that will help locate life throughout the universe.
Although several organizations and big names have occasionally devoted time and e.gconditions για την παρακολούθηση της ηλεκτρομαγνητικής radiations in transmissions, today's news marks one of the largest funding acquisitions SETI has received in its history.
This money and during ten years, will be used for its consolidation access at the Parkes Telescope in Australia, and at the Green Bank Telescope located in West Virginia. This access is largely restricted to SETI scientists, as these radio telescopes are in high demand throughout the wider astronomical community. In fact, scientists will have thousands of additional hours each year to use the telescopes.
To help raise public awareness, the project will organize a contest to search for a digital message that best represents life on Earth, with a gift of 1.000.000 for the winner.
Hawking, who will be an adviser to the ambitious project, said he believes life emerged "spontaneously" on Earth, so there must be "other appearances" of life in the infinite universe.
Ο Yuri Milner από την άλλη, είναι γνωστός για τις επενδύσεις του σε εταιρείες τεχνολογίας υψηλού προφίλ, όπως τη Groupon, το Facebook, τη Flipkart, την Alibaba, και τη Xiaomi.