Tag: Stephen Hawking

  • Russian billionaire devotes $100 million to star flight initiative

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Entrepreneur Yuri Milner, holding up a prototype StarChip spacecraft he hopes to develop and, within a generation, launch to the nearest star using ground-based lasers and ultra-thin light sails. Credit: Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Breakthrough Starshot Russian billionaire Yuri Milner plans to spend $100 million over the next…

  • $100 million initiative to search for ET

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    Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, Astronomer Royal Martin Rees, SETI pioneer Frank Drake, and Ann Druyan, widow of late astronomer Carl Sagan who helped craft interstellar messages carried aboard NASA’s Voyager probes. Credit: Getty Images Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner is pledging $100 million to fund the most sophisticated search for extraterrestrials ever…