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Well contrast that with Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner's $100m initiative to search for alien life[1], and I'd say that we're still pretty optimistic about tha
by hermanmerman 11y ago
Well contrast that with Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner's $100m initiative to search for alien life[1], and I'd say that we're still pretty optimistic about that. We're basically searching for aliens who would've had the same idea as we had with Voyager :) almost naive now that I think of it...
[1] http://www.cbsnews.com/news/stephen-hawking-russian-billionaire-yuri-milner-search-alien-outer-space/ http://www.cbsnews.com/news/stephen-hawking-russian-billiona...
- duskwuff 11y agoWell, more precisely, aliens who are transmitting something akin to the Arecibo message: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_message https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_message Except we only sent ours once in 1974, so aliens who didn't happen to be listening in the right direction right then are out of luck.