Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Nets Historic Cash Infusion
With a $100-million donation, billionaire Yuri Milner plans to revolutionize the astronomical quest to find alien life
By Lee Billings July 20, 2015
Is the cosmos filled with chatty alien civilizations or is Earth a lonely spark of life in a sterile universe? Russian billionaire Yuri Milner wants to know, and has committed to spending at least $100 million to support the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). Efforts to listen for interstellar messages date back to the 1960s but funding has often proved as elusive as the aliens themselves. NASA’s SETI efforts, which ran from the 1970s to the 1990s, consumed about $110 million across 20 years, according to the agency’s former chief historian, the astronomer Steven Dick, who calls today’s announcement a “sea change” in SETI funding.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/search-for-extraterrestrial-intelligence-nets-historic-cash-infusion/
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