The announcement was relayed live through a webcast.
Either way, there is no bigger question.
Its time to commit to finding the answer to search for life beyond Earth.
He added: We are alive.
Lord Martin Rees, a renowned cosmologist and astrophysicist, is one of the name involved in the project.
Rees said: The search for extraterrestrial life is the most exciting quest in 21st-century science.
The Breakthrough Initiatives aims to put it on the same level as the other ultimate scientific questions.
Participants would need to run a free program that would download and analyze the radio telescope data.
Our approach to data will be open and taking advantage of the problem-solving power of social networks.
But that is not enough.
These ideas cannot explain everything.
They can explain the light of stars, but not the lights that shine from planet Earth.
To understand these lights, you must know about life.
The SETI program would begin its observations next year.
source: www.techworm.net