Oligarch Pledges $100M To Find Aliens

CALLING E.T.

Updated Apr. 14, 2017 10:26AM EDT / Published Jul. 20, 2015 11:26AM EDT

Russian billionaire and Silicon Valley investor Yuri Milner announced Monday that he would be spend $100 million to search for intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. The announcement was made at the Royal Society of London, with Milner holding a conference call along with theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. The announcement was meant to highlight Breakthrough Listen, a worldwide project aimed at finding extraterrestial life. “There has never been a better moment for a large-scale international effort to find life in the universe. As a civilization, we owe it to ourselves to commit time, resources, and passion to this quest,” according to a letter signed by many notable astrophysicists backing the Breakthrough Listen initiative.

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Oligarch Pledges $100M To Find Aliens

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