{"id":31860,"date":"2015-07-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/stephen-hawking-s-135-million-search-for-aliens\/"},"modified":"2015-07-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T00:00:00","slug":"stephen-hawking-s-135-million-search-for-aliens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/will-goodings\/stephen-hawking-s-135-million-search-for-aliens\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Hawking\u2019s $135m search for aliens"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>Images | Twitter<\/h6>\n<h3>The Parkes radio telescope in NSW will be part of a new $US100 million ($135 million), 10-year mission to discover whether humanity is alone in the universe.<\/h3>\n<p>The &#8216;Breakthrough Initiative&#8217;, funded by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner and launched in London on Monday by physicist Stephen Hawking, is the biggest and most comprehensive search for alien intelligence ever attempted, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Age<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Parkes telescope, along with the Green Bank telescope in West Virginia, USA, will monitor the million stars closest to the Earth and the 100 closest galaxies, and listen for telltale &#8216;bumps&#8217; in the signal that could mean alien technology is at work.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/screen_shot_2015-07-21_at_10.43.30_am.png\" width=\"1015\" height=\"668\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no bigger question,&#8221; Professor Hawking, an advisor to the project, said on Monday. Science has explained the &#8216;light of stars&#8217; but not the lights that shine from Earth, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Somewhere in the cosmos, perhaps, intelligent life may be watching these lights of ours, aware of what they mean. Or do our lights wander a lifeless cosmos \u2013 unseen beacons, announcing that here, on one rock, the Universe discovered its existence?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s time to commit to finding the answer\u2026 we must know,&#8221; Professor Hawking said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/afl-an-ugly-argument\">AFL RIGHT NOW IS THE UGLIEST IT&#8217;S BEEN<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/quinn-walsh-awards-thompson-medal\">BRAVE QUINN AWARDS PHIL WALSH MEDAL TO SCOTT THOMPSON<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Images | Twitter The Parkes radio telescope in NSW will be part of a new $US100 million ($135 million), 10-year mission to discover whether humanity is alone in the universe. 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