Yuri Milner and the Fellowship of Silicon Valley Science Influencers
Yuri Milner and the Fellowship of Silicon Valley Science Influencers
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
November 14, 201713m 15s
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Show Notes
“Who are we?” That impossible question opened the 2015 public letter announcing a well-heeled SETI project called Breakthrough Listen. Dozens of people—scientists, astronauts, and also a producer, a chess champ, and a soprano—signed the note, which kicked off a $100 million effort by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner to catch signals from alien civilizations. That quest, Milner and the signatories hoped, would answer that existential query.
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