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Russian tycoon to invest huge money in a new search for alien life

Published 14:15 20 Jul 2015 BST

Updated 14:15 20 Jul 2015 BST

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Russian tycoon to invest huge money in a new search for alien life

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Russian billionaire Yuri Milner is investing $100m in a project which will try to discover if there really is alien life out in space.

Yuri Milner, co-founder of Mail.ru Group Ltd., speaks during an interview at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival (SXSW) in Austin Texas, U.S., on Saturday, March 9, 2013. The Russian investor, whose early bet on Facebook Inc. made him a billionaire, sees the social-network as one of the three websites that will endure for 100 years. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images The ten-year initiative, called Breakthrough Listen,  will conduct the most extensive sweep of space for signals from aliens ever. alien The project will feature some of the brightest luminaries in science and experts on space. Hugely powerful telescopes will be used and at the end of the ten years, all the findings will be released to the public. We can't wait to see what emerges at the end of the 10-Year Plan'. H/T - Wired

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Russian tycoon to invest huge money in a new search for alien life