martes, 21 de julio de 2015

Internet investor pours $100 million into the search for alien life

The hunt for extraterrestrial life just got a big leg up. Internet investor Yuri Milner and his Breakthrough Prize Foundation will spend $100 million supporting Breakthrough Listen, a project that will use radio telescopes, lasers and other equipment to search for alien signals. The cash will not only guarantee equipment time, but lead to dedicated processing equipment that could dramatically improve the discovery process. 
Researchers should not only cover several times more sky and radio wavelengths, but inspect both in greater detail and at higher speeds the radio telescope searches should run 100 times faster, even as they tackle five times as many wavelengths. Source

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