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The existence of life other than our own planet is one of the great mysteries that humans cannot prove. An unsolved subject, lacking a project that wants to carry out this search in a serious and scientific way. Until today.

Project Breakthrough: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life

This is the largest and most important project of the past decade. It is a joint effort between the scientific teams of the American and Australian telescopes and has achieved With support from Professors Hawking and Martin Rees, all funded by billionaire Yuri Milner, a former PhD student in theoretical physics.

The Breakthrough Project was announced at the Royal Society in London. It has a huge budget of US$100 million and will be used in the next 10 years. The purpose is simple, which is to investigate and, if possible, find extraterrestrial life.

Hawking supports the search for extraterrestrial life bid 1437415677, funded by billionaire Yuri Milner

About this plan, Hawking said:

" Somewhere in the universe, perhaps, intelligent life is looking at our lights and realizing what they say. Or, are our lights wandering through the inanimate universe: invisible beacons proclaiming here, in the rocks. , the universe has discovered its existence? Whatever it is, it's no big deal. It's time to start looking for life beyond the earth. We should know." /p>

The project will utilize two of the most powerful telescopes in the world, Green Bank in West Virginia and Parkes in New South Wales, Australia. The program covers ten times more of the sky and scans five times more of the radio spectrum than any other space program, making it a hundred times faster.

Stephen Hawking

In addition, the program is supported by the SETI@home (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) project at the University of California, Berkeley, the world’s largest One of the computer-based platforms, with more than 9 million volunteers, will support the proposal by monitoring the skies for extraterrestrial life.

Yuri Milner said:

"Today's technology offers us a real change in answering one of humanity's most ambitious questions: Are we alone in the universe? Lonely existence? ”

Related knowledge

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is a collective name for all groups searching for extraterrestrial civilization, not just one organization. Among the more well-known are academic institutions including Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley, and the non-profit organization SETI Association. These organizations are committed to using advanced equipment such as radio telescopes to receive electromagnetic waves from the universe and analyze regular signals in the hope of discovering extraterrestrial civilizations.

Among them, SETI@home is a project aimed at using the idle computing power of thousands of computers connected to the Internet to search for extraterrestrial civilizations. Participants can download and run a screen saver program to allow their computers to calculate the data returned by the radio signals.

Cornell University astronomer Frank Drake completed the first SETI experiment in 1960.

On November 16, 1974, to celebrate the completion of the renovation of the Arecibo radio telescope, a satellite called "Arecibo" was launched through the telescope to the globular star cluster M13 25,000 light-years away from the Earth. "Message" message, hoping to contact aliens.

In 1977, SETI used the Giant Ear Radio Telescope at Ohio State University to receive the famous Wow! signal, which was a very strong radio signal lasting 72 seconds.

In 1984, the University of California, Berkeley, officially launched this program. In 1999, it began to use radio telescopes to analyze electromagnetic waves from the universe. One-third of its funding comes from the National Science Foundation, one-third comes from the California government, and the remaining funds come from private donations. Paul Allen donated $11.5 million to the program in 2001. On March 19, 2004, another US$13.5 million was donated to this project.

On April 27, 2011, Tom Pearson, director of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Program, informed program collaborators via email that due to the U.S. government’s spending cuts, the program had to be discontinued. Due to severe funding shortage, the plan was suspended. On December 5, 2011, the plan was resumed.

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