Here is a bit more on this ambitious endeavor:
Of course, that’s no guarantee it will succeed. “We should be asking the difficult questions,” says Milner, echoing President John F. Kennedy’s famous words about going to the moon. At a July 20 event—chosen, of course, to coincide with the anniversary of Apollo 11’s moon landing—Milner announced Breakthrough Listen, flanked by scientific luminaries such as Frank Drake, he of the Drake equation that estimates the number of detectable alien civilizations, and Geoff Marcy, an astronomer who has helped find hundreds of exoplanets. (Eminent physicist Stephen Hawking will be there, too, though he himself is not leading the project.)
In any case, Milner acknowledges the endeavor will likely take more than the 10 years for which he’s funding the initiative. So what happens if Breakthrough Listen doesn’t find anything? “We’ll roll it over for another 10 years,” says Milner. “Why stop? The question is interesting enough to keep going.”
I wonder if they will find anything or it will just be a spare $100 million 😉
thanks to wired for the great info
If u have it like that why not use it to do something no 1 has done before
Me to I want to go
Y not…… he’s kool guy I want too help hmu
About time give us a new enemy so we can stop fighting each other.
If he gives me the 100 million I’ll make sure he has a pet alien
I bought a fish tank with aliens in it I’ll sell for 10O million
Kill them all
Write me a check, got some at the home depot you can have.
100 million won’t do much.
Search no more just get a hold of cl$#%&!@*ified gov files
Least someone is trying lol maybe break that whole aliens no aliens bs sorry but only closed minded people believe we are the only ones sorry but its true.
That “guy” is Stephen Hawking you $#%&!@*hats