The famous cosmologist Stephen Hawking at a news conference in London unveiled a new program to locate in space signals from extraterrestrial life. Watch the video presentation of the scientist.
The initiative Breakthrough Listen, presented on Monday, scientist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking Russian businessman Yuri Milner, will inject new life into the project SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence ). In this project, scientists are looking for in a stream of radio signals coming to the Earth, “traces” of the activities of extraterrestrial life.
In recent years, the project experienced considerable difficulties with financing, and he was repeatedly threatened with closure due to the fact that the main Project Tools – Allen radio telescope (ATA) – could close because of lack of money to maintain it at the University of California at Berkeley, on whose balance sheet it was.
Yuri Milner, a prominent businessman, philanthropist, and innovator, with Hawking plans to allocate 100 million dollars for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
“The core of” scientific team formed the backbone of SETI, including Drake himself, Seth Shostak, Martin Rees and many other famous astronomers and specialists in the search for extraterrestrial life . Scientists like Hawking and told Milner, every year to observe signals from billions of stars in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies hundreds.
The project organizers stressed that the project will be completely apolitical.
“We are not going to hide anything. It is possible that the aliens will find an amateur astronomer,” – said Milner, responding to a question about how the project will respond to the demands of detection aliens hide.
To search for aliens can connect everyone – the data obtained in the framework of Breakthrough Listen, will be analyzed in the framework of distributed computing systems SETI @ home.
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