S.E.T.I. (Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Is Starting Up Again

After some mysteries starting in the 1970s the S.E.T.I. program took a pause.  Now, the program is getting restarted and they are very ambitious:

A new influx of money has saved the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) from collapse, but what does the future hold for our quest to discover intelligent life in the Universe?

In July 2015 Russian billionaire philanthropist Yuri Milner announced that his Breakthrough Prize Foundation would donate $100 million over the course of 10 years to fund the biggest SETI project ever attempted. Prior to this, the field of SETI had effectively been the pauper of the astronomical sciences, shorn of government funding and limping along thanks only to the generosity of public and private donations. At best, its global annual funding was $1.5 million. With Milner’s millions, everything has changed.

Let’s find out more on how they might communicate with aliens on page 2

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3 Comments

  1. Doug Wharton said:

    Need a different approach to our methods used. Don’t think we know what “They” would be looking for yet. Something different from light and radio waves.

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