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Zuckerberg, Milner & Steven Hawking To Search For Alien Life On A Nearby Earth-Like Planet
Three of the world’s richest and most intelligent men are hoping to be the first to find alien life. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner and physicist Stephen Hawking have revealed exclusively that they will be listening to signals from ‘Earth 2.0’.
Officially named Proxima b, the rocky planet is believed to have the right conditions to harbour life and is just four light years from Earth.The trio are funding an ambitious $100 million (£76 million) project known as ‘Breakthrough Listen’, which will use the world’s most powerful telescopes to listen to messages from ET.
BREAKTHROUGH LISTEN.
Breakthrough Listen is a search for intelligent life using two of the world’s most powerful telescopes.
It was launched in January with the aim of scouring one million of the closest stars to Earth for faint signals thrown out into space by intelligent life beyond our own world.Scientists taking part in the £76 million ($100 million) project are also scanning the very heart of our galaxy along with 100 of the closest galaxies for low power radio transmissions.Breakthrough Listen will collect data over a 10-year period. Search capacity will be 50 times more sensitive, cover 10 times more of the sky, five times more of the radio spectrum, and at speeds 100 times faster.
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