Why That $100m Alien Listening Project May Be a Waste of Time
The launch of the $100M Breakthrough Initiative project to Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has been supported by many leading scientists including Stephen Hawking and astronomer royal Martin Rees. But there is no evidence – and few convincing theories – to suggest that intelligent, communicative aliens actually exist. So are listening projects really the best…
Stephen Hawking Backs $100m Search for Aliens
The Breakthrough Listen project is our latest attempt to see if any other civilisations have made it through the Great Filter without destroying themselves in radioactive fires, investing $100m in the neverending hunt for aliens clever enough to have invented telly and satellites. The mission will use two of the largest radio telescopes on earth…