It’s a ten year plan.
Russian billionaire, Yuri Milner (pic below) is investing $100m in a project which will try to discover if there really is alien life out in space.
Announced today, the ten-year initiative, called Breakthrough Listen, will conduct the most extensive sweep of space for signals from aliens ever.
The project will feature some of the brightest luminaries in science and experts on space. Hugely powerful telescopes will be used and at the end of the ten years, all the findings will be released to the public.
Hopefully we can get first dibs on an out-of-this-world athlete who may have a tenuous enough Irish granny link.
H/T – Wired.com
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