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Stephen Hawking Announces $100 Million Hunt for Alien Life (+Video)

Rachel Feltman | July 20, 2015

On Monday, famed physicist Stephen Hawking and Russian tycoon Yuri Milner held a news conference in London to announce their new project: injecting $100 million and a whole lot of brain power into the search for intelligent extraterrestrial life, an endeavor they're calling Breakthrough Listen.

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<more at http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/07/20/stephen-hawking-announces-100-million-hunt-for-alien-life/; related links: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-07/20/breakthrough-listen-project ($100m Breakthrough Listen is 'largest ever' search for alien civilisations. July 20, 2015) and http://www.breakthroughinitiatives.org/ (Breakthrough Initiatives); further: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1658579/ [Stephen Hawking's Universe: Season 1, Episode 1. Aliens (25 Apr. 2010) 'Are We Alone?' Hawking considers one of the most important mysteries facing humankind - the possibility of alien, intelligent life. He leads us on a journey rendered in eye-popping detail]; see also: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stephen-hawking-and-yuri-milner-announce-100m-initiative-to-seek-extraterrestrial-intelligence/?WT.mc_id=SA_TECH_20150721 (Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100M Initiative to Seek ET. Milner, a tech start-up entrepreneur and philanthropist, is partnering with scientists around the world to search for life among the stars)>