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Stephen Hawking announces $100 million hunt for alien life
The Washington Post's Speaking of Science ^ | July 20, 2015 | Rachel Feltman

Posted on 07/20/2015 5:36:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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."

Geoffrey Marcy, a University of California, Berkeley, astronomer who found most of our first exoplanets, also spoke at the event as part of the group's brain trust....

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: aliens; andrewsiemion; anndruyan; astronomy; breakthroughlisten; csiroparkes; danwerthimer; extraterrestrials; fermiparadox; frankdrake; geoffmarcy; geoffreymarcy; greenbank; licktelescope; martinrees; panspermia; peteworden; russia; science; seti; stephenhawking; xplanets; yurimilner
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To: MagnoliaB

You raise a valid point! I hadn’t thought of that.


21 posted on 07/20/2015 5:55:44 PM PDT by WorkingClassFilth
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To: WyCoKsRepublican
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22 posted on 07/20/2015 5:55:54 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: allendale

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When you stand at the Great White Throne, tell him that the reason that you didn’t believe his word is because you’re sure that there is other life out there, even though there won’t even be any “out there” there any more by that point.
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23 posted on 07/20/2015 5:56:03 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m holding out for $200 Mil. and a pizza.


24 posted on 07/20/2015 6:00:12 PM PDT by Blogatron (death io islaam)
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To: editor-surveyor

It might be a vast wasteland but not aware of any divine revelation on the subject.


25 posted on 07/20/2015 6:00:15 PM PDT by allendale
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To: Theodore R.

Mr. Hawkings is a theorist. No more no less. People listen to this mad man because he denies the existence of God
if you say there is no God commies think you are smart. Lunacy needs not an audience. More and more our society it listening to the thoughts of emotionally unstable loons.


26 posted on 07/20/2015 6:00:53 PM PDT by AIL
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Look, I wasn’t serious and I’ve got no ax to grind with you. It was all tongue-in-cheek in allowing me to get as close as I ever would to hassle you over the big deal you made over an article I posted that you did earlier in the day allowing me to blow off some steam

Russian Entrepreneur Pledges $100 Million in Search for Extraterrestrial Life
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3314397/posts


27 posted on 07/20/2015 6:05:38 PM PDT by lbryce (OBAMA:Misbegotten, GodForsaken, bastard offspring of Satan and Medusa)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Stephen Hawking is nothing more than a brilliant atheist moron.


28 posted on 07/20/2015 6:06:42 PM PDT by PROCON (CRUZing into 2016 with Ted!)
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To: lbryce

I never saw that thread until now. Are you mixed-up?


29 posted on 07/20/2015 6:07:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: Theodore R.
I don’t know much about physics, and I have no interest in learning about Mr. Hawking either.

Both physics and Hawking are unbelievably interesting subjects

30 posted on 07/20/2015 6:07:52 PM PDT by terycarl (, COMMON SENSE PREVAILS OVERALL)
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To: max americana

31 posted on 07/20/2015 6:13:53 PM PDT by Pelham (Deo Vindice)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Stephen Hawking announces $100 million hunt for alien life. Hey, I can take you to them at the Home Depot parking lot! I’m a winner!


32 posted on 07/20/2015 6:17:00 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: terycarl
Both physics and Hawking are unbelievably interesting subjects

Physics is incredibly interesting, and important. Hawking, however, as some of his own colleagues believe, is vastly overrated as a thinker and physicist.

33 posted on 07/20/2015 6:19:03 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: editor-surveyor
Hawking is a pathetic joke!

Not really...he is a brilliant person who has conceptions and theories that few of us can understand....some, of course are pipe dreams, but some, like Edison picturing electric lights, are how God does things.

34 posted on 07/20/2015 6:21:45 PM PDT by terycarl (, COMMON SENSE PREVAILS OVERALL)
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To: editor-surveyor
. When you stand at the Great White Throne, tell him that the reason that you didn’t believe his word is because you’re sure that there is other life out there, even though there won’t even be any “out there” there any more by that point.

where, in the Bible, does it specifically state that Earth is the only place where God created any life form????? .

35 posted on 07/20/2015 6:26:57 PM PDT by terycarl (, COMMON SENSE PREVAILS OVERALL)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How desperate are the seculars to find any SHRED of evidence that God might just NOT exist!

Now, if he were to spend even HALF that amount to find ILLEGAL aliens in Europe and North America, especially those who believe their mission is to destroy the West, well THAT would be useful!


36 posted on 07/20/2015 6:37:10 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind, but now I see...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"So in an infinite universe, there must be other occurrences of life."

That is exactly correct, but only if you believe that we (life) came to be as a result of random events.

In fact, if we did indeed come to be by chance, then in an infinite universe there would necessarily be infinite instances of life.

37 posted on 07/20/2015 6:42:43 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If he dedicated $100 million to DDT spraying programs, he might be able to save African lives.


38 posted on 07/20/2015 7:17:26 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Ob)
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To: terycarl
[W]here, in the Bible, does it specifically state that Earth is the only place where God created any life form?

The first sentence of accepted biblical text distinguishes the Earth from the heavens. The remainder of the biblical texts treat chiefly of life as known on this planet, and references the heavens occasionally with some detail as part of God's creation, but not as the predominant object of His works. That object is man, and only man. Not angels. Not animals. Not rocks. Not stars. To expect a specific biblical text that commands men to refrain from space exploration in the interest of finding alternate intelligence is to make a mockery of the purpose and intent of the biblical texts in the first place.

39 posted on 07/20/2015 7:35:19 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.)
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To: terycarl

It is the total theme of the entire Bible: The “people for his name.”

The purpose of creation was to give birth to the people for his name.

You miss a lot when you don’t study the prophets.


40 posted on 07/20/2015 8:03:40 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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