The Allan Telescope Array, a radio telescope for combined radio astronomy and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) Colby Gutierrez-Kraybill / WikimediaLast July, the Russian billionaire Yuri Milner launched a campaign called the Breakthrough Initiatives, a $100-million dollar donation to be doled out to scientists working on the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI). This donation didn’t just provide some much-needed legitimacy to a field that has, since its inception, often struggled to be taken seriously. It also helped to alleviate one of SETI’s largest problems, second only to actually locating aliens: finding the funding to continue the search. Scanning …read more
Source: The Atlantic
