Something Out There: Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100M Initiative to Seek ET

by The Scientific American

Milner, a tech start-up entrepreneur and philanthropist, is partnering with scientists around the world to search for life among the stars.

The Green Bank Telescope is the world's largest steerable
radio telescope, and one of three telescopes Breakthrough Listen
 will use extensively in its groundbreaking search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Credit: Via The Scientific American

Are we alone? We may not be alone. We are alone. There is something out there. Anyone who is familiar with X-Files will have heard of the above phrases and even as Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) prepared to it our screens again, the search for other life have received a hug boost.

A recent article published by the Scientific American say, Prof. Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner have Announced a $100m (£64.3m) Initiative to Seek ET (search for sign of life outside of our earth).

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), research has not yielded much to confirm the existence of other beings outside of the solar system, even though mankind has made giant strides in space research, with NASA successfully launching missions to Mars and Pluto.

Yesterday, in a live webcast which originated from London, the Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner, along with the physicist Stephen Hawking were expected to announce their intentions to change that.