This is one of the scientific Americans sixty second science. I'm Steve Mursky.

Got a minute? Are we alone in the universe?

Well, are we alone is one of the oldest questions,

and numerous generations of scientists and just people

who are curious looking at the sky?

Entrepreneur and former physicist Yuri Milner, founder of the breakthrough prizes in fundamental physics, life sciences, and mathematics.

So the 20th of July, this is the day of the Apollo landing on the moon.

We were announcing a breakthrough listen project which is designed to be the most comprehensive and significant search for extraterrestrial intelligence so far.

Last week in a New York City restaurant, Milner spoke about the $100 million plan with Scientific American editor-in-chief Marriott

D. Christina.

We have signed the deals with the biggest telescopes in the world to allow for the best scientists and data analysts to be able to

accumulate a significant amount of information and to be able to look through that information for the signals of

extraterrestrial nature.

Tell us which telescopes they are and what kind of data they'll be collecting.

Well, we will start with three telescopes. The largest

terrible telescope in the world is in Green Bank, Virginia and the largest telescope

in Australia called Parks.

Those will be used for radio search and then

Lick Observatory will be our partner in optical search.

And I have one other question about that data that you're gathering.

You're doing something very unusual about that data, aren't you?

Well, the idea is really to combine the best what Silicon Bellic can offer with the access to the best

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