On Monday, famed physicist Stephen Hawking and Russian tycoon Yuri Milner held a news conference in London to announce their new project: injecting $100 million and a whole lot of brain power into the search for intelligent extraterrestrial life, an endeavor they're calling Breakthrough Listen.
"We believe that life arose spontaneously on Earth," Hawking said at Monday's news conference, "So in an infinite universe, there must be other occurrences of life."
Okay while the skeptic inside of me wonders if this one hundred million would not be better spent on education, or feeding the poor, or fighting climate change the twelve year old boy inside of me has a prepubescent chubby at the very thought of discovering life out in space.
I don't think I mention it very often, but on my bucket list is to be around long enough to witness the discovery of life on other planets.
It seems more than logical that it must exist, so all we have to do is locate a few space amoebas and I can die a happy man. (Well actually it will take a bit more to die completely happy but trust me you don't to hear about that.)
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