Equally, the signals emitted by the Breakthrough Listen project’s equipment could be picked up by alien civilisations.
The Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia, the largest steerable telescope on the planet, and the Parkes Observatory in New South Wales, are contracted to lead the unprecedented search that will start in January 2016.
This $100-million project is expected to last for ten years.
It should be noted that Yuri Milner recently announced that he is willing to fund Stephen Hawking’s project for the study of extraterrestrial life.
“In an infinite universe, there must be other cases of life”.
“Somewhere in the cosmos, perhaps, intelligent life may be watching these lights of ours, aware of what they mean”, Hawking said, according to the BBC. Either way, there is no better question. The Breakthrough initiatives are making that commitment. “It is important to us to know if we are alone in the dark”, says Hawking.
The hunt is even made more exciting with every smartphone owners asked to get involved by downloading an app that would help find aliens if they do really exists. I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their home planet. The odds of alien contact was initially considered it as a bit of a joke but, much to the delight of scientists and the discomfort of bookmakers, the eventuality that ET is real and the bookies will have to make something in the region of an “eight-figure payout” is looking more and more likely.
This project will also be set apart from the others in that it will focus most on listening for signs of life. Soon, we may have the answers.
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