Yuri Milner Foundation is funding a large-scale initiative for Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence – Open Systems

Breakthrough Prize Foundation will allocate for the project $ 100 million. For ten years. Already contracted to lease two large telescopes – Green Bank, West Virginia and the Australian Parkes; they will look for alien radio signals, and Lick Observatory will search for laser signals.

The Foundation Breakthrough Prize Foundation, established by Yuri Milner, co-owner of Mail.ru and DST Global, in conjunction with the University of California at Berkeley, will lead the initiative to a major expansion of activity in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. The initiative was announced on July 20 Milner Royal Society of London. On acceding to the said astrophysicist Stephen Hawking and Frank Drake, known by the fact that he at one time the world’s first began searching for signals from extraterrestrial intelligence.

Breakthrough Prize Foundation will allocate for the project $ 100 million. For ten years . At present, the lease contracts of two large telescopes – Green Bank, West Virginia and the Australian Parkes; They will be looking for signals of extraterrestrial civilizations, and Lick Observatory will search for laser signals.

Along with this initiative is planned to involve crowdsourcing project SETI @ home, whose members voluntarily provide their processors contacts to find duplicate signals in astronomical data. In general the processing power is not inferior to the fastest supercomputers of today.

The initiative is also planned to hold a contest for posts by Earthlings to transfer potential brothers on reason.