Monday, July 20, 2015

Betting Lots of Quatloos on the Search for Alien Civilizations (Part 2)

Stephen Hawking and entrepreneur and former physicist Yuri Milner announce a $100 million, 10-year initiative to look for signs of intelligent life in the cosmos.

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Stephen Hawking and entrepreneur and former physicist Yuri Milner announce a $100 million, 10-year initiative to look for signs of intelligent life in the cosmos. Also present at the Royal Society announcement in London were Frank Drake of the Drake Equation for estimating the number of advanced civilizations in the universe; Martin Rees, England’s Astronomer Royal; Ann Druyan, author and science documentary producer, including both versions of the Cosmos program; and UC Berkeley’s Geoffrey Marcy, astronomy’s most prolific exoplanet hunter.  

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