$100 Million Project to find alien life

[JesusHadAegis]

Stephen hawkings, a russian billionaire, and Mark Zukkenburg have teamed up to launch an extraterrestrial project. Thoughts and info?

why spend all those money when it is guaranteed that alien life will be discovered someday.

IF they are doing some actions to help the poor before doing this then its ok.

It's good as long as it wont be wasted, but i would be devastated if they wont prioritize their fellow human beings.

Cause there are many more things to discover in our own planet that space missions.

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[acroman08]

Stephen hawkings, a russian billionaire, and Mark Zukkenburg have teamed up to launch an extraterrestrial project. Thoughts and info?

why spend all those money when it is guaranteed that alien life will be discovered someday.

IF they are doing some actions to help the poor before doing this then its ok.

It's good as long as it wont be wasted, but i would be devastated if they wont prioritize their fellow human beings.

Cause there are many more things to discover in our own planet that space missions.

they are already helping the poor but every people have their own interest. we cant condemn them by funding the project the they are interested with.

[markj113]

Stephen hawkings, a russian billionaire, and Mark Zukkenburg have teamed up to launch an extraterrestrial project. Thoughts and info?

why spend all those money when it is guaranteed that alien life will be discovered someday.

IF they are doing some actions to help the poor before doing this then its ok.

It's good as long as it wont be wasted, but i would be devastated if they wont prioritize their fellow human beings.

Cause there are many more things to discover in our own planet that space missions.

Judging by your username you a Christian,  so why dont the Vatican lead by example and liquidate some of their $15 billion dollar wealth and spend it on the poor instead of telling everyone else to do it.

[Evildrum]

Is it Zukkenburg or Zuckerburg? Could not find anything but this thread in a google search.

I really do not like the idea of Facebook being involved in our potentially first contact.
Would spend to much time unfriending aliens that seemed to be nice but turned out to just want to use my body as baby holder.

[LuanX3]

Stephen hawkings, a russian billionaire, and Mark Zukkenburg have teamed up to launch an extraterrestrial project. Thoughts and info?

faaakeee, I googled, and nothing, but what I know is that Stephen Hawking is funding a project to create a tiny spaceship that is supposed to travel at almost light speed

[onlinedragon]

That is a lot of money I am interested what the result will be. Will they get more answers to there questions about Aliens.

[tuvok007]

Stephen hawkings, a russian billionaire, and Mark Zukkenburg have teamed up to launch an extraterrestrial project. Thoughts and info?

faaakeee, I googled, and nothing, but what I know is that Stephen Hawking is funding a project to create a tiny spaceship that is supposed to travel at almost light speed

Nope, it is 75 thousand kilometers per hour,thats "only" 1/4 of light speed

[BADecker]

They wouldn't recognize an alien if one was sitting on their shoulder. And they wouldn't tell you if they found an alien.

[Betwrong]

Stephen hawkings, a russian billionaire, and Mark Zukkenburg have teamed up to launch an extraterrestrial project. Thoughts and info?

It's really funny that some people have so much wealth and money and don't know how to spend this funds better than on something useless for all humankind.
They may wait 100 or 1000 years to receive answer from aliens on some very fare planet but most people need help and support right now.
I don't know it's this funny or stupid news, or both.
But, I guess, it's better even to spend money in this way than for wars or weapons.

Yep, only if all the other people would spend their money on similar projects too. Unfortunately there are people who spend on weapons more than on food, North Korea for example, and if you don't want to be conquered by them you should invest in weapons too.

[The_prodigy]

Stephen hawkings, a russian billionaire, and Mark Zukkenburg have teamed up to launch an extraterrestrial project. Thoughts and info?

Source of this info? it's a waste of money imho, we got a more challenging situation on earth (hunger, climate changes, and education) and yet that big sum of money used for something that's not sure

Truth hurts mate yup as you said there are lot of problem in this world such as climate,hunger,education but there just spending millions of money in nothing thats why this is the worst generation ever,

[Raja_MBZ]

Waste of money... at the end, they won't find any alien.

[haseeb ahmed]

I dont think alien exist.What if they spent this 100 million on poor and needy people like in Africa despite of spending money on this foolish project.Alien only exists in movies not in real world.

[Daniel91]

Stephen hawkings, a russian billionaire, and Mark Zukkenburg have teamed up to launch an extraterrestrial project. Thoughts and info?

It's really funny that some people have so much wealth and money and don't know how to spend this funds better than on something useless for all humankind.
They may wait 100 or 1000 years to receive answer from aliens on some very fare planet but most people need help and support right now.
I don't know it's this funny or stupid news, or both.
But, I guess, it's better even to spend money in this way than for wars or weapons.

Yep, only if all the other people would spend their money on similar projects too. Unfortunately there are people who spend on weapons more than on food, North Korea for example, and if you don't want to be conquered by them you should invest in weapons too.

Yes, it's sad reality that we have to spend so much money on weapons when so many people in Africa don't have enough food to eat and starving.
But, if we can't avoid it because of countries like N. Korea and Isis terrorist organization, at least we don't need to spend money on such stupid and very expensive things like searching alien life.

[Gronthaing]

Hope people who complain about this complain when the next transformers movie comes out costing 4 or 5 times more than this project. Or when the next twilight saga comes out or some other stupid movie.

Stephen hawkings, a russian billionaire, and Mark Zukkenburg have teamed up to launch an extraterrestrial project. Thoughts and info?

It's really funny that some people have so much wealth and money and don't know how to spend this funds better than on something useless for all humankind.
They may wait 100 or 1000 years to receive answer from aliens on some very fare planet but most people need help and support right now.
I don't know it's this funny or stupid news, or both.
But, I guess, it's better even to spend money in this way than for wars or weapons.

Yep, only if all the other people would spend their money on similar projects too. Unfortunately there are people who spend on weapons more than on food, North Korea for example, and if you don't want to be conquered by them you should invest in weapons too.

Yes, it's sad reality that we have to spend so much money on weapons when so many people in Africa don't have enough food to eat and starving.
But, if we can't avoid it because of countries like N. Korea and Isis terrorist organization, at least we don't need to spend money on such stupid and very expensive things like searching alien life.

Agree that we spend too much on weapons. But it isn't because of north korea or isis. That is just the current excuse. Before that it was the russians. Before them the germans. Before that the british. Before them the spanish. Etc. We spend that money in weapons because it makes some people very rich.

[Jasad]

Stephen hawkings, a russian billionaire, and Mark Zukkenburg have teamed up to launch an extraterrestrial project. Thoughts and info?

is that true?give me more explain about that and source maybe.
find aliens life is not easy just becasue they not exist in this earth,and going to out of this earth is not easy job,we need better spaceship than star wars ship

[Gronthaing]

Stephen hawkings, a russian billionaire, and Mark Zukkenburg have teamed up to launch an extraterrestrial project. Thoughts and info?

is that true?give me more explain about that and source maybe.

It's the starshot project. Easy to find online. It was all over news sites. For example: http://phys.org/news/2016-04-stephen-hawking-life-tiny-spacecraft.html

find aliens life is not easy just becasue they not exist in this earth,and going to out of this earth is not easy job,we need better spaceship than star wars ship

Have to start somewhere. Getting the ships moving at a fifth of the speed of light and then transmitting back what they find from another star system is a good start.

[Spendulus]

Stephen hawkings, a russian billionaire, and Mark Zukkenburg have teamed up to launch an extraterrestrial project. Thoughts and info?

is that true?give me more explain about that and source maybe.
find aliens life is not easy just becasue they not exist in this earth,and going to out of this earth is not easy job,we need better spaceship than star wars ship

Some "minor" problem....

The laser is the most intimidating and expensive of the challenges. It would have to generate 100 gigawatts of power for the two minutes needed to accelerate the butterfly probes to a fifth of the speed of light (subjecting its tiny innards to 60,000 times the force of normal gravity, by the way). That is about as much energy as it takes for a space shuttle to lift off, Dr. Loeb said, and about 100 times the output of a typical nuclear power plant.

[BADecker]

Yeah. We don't need to go out there to find aliens. We got Hillary.     

[BlackPanda]

I had never heard of info about this. but if that is true then $ 100 Million is a very large amount of money .but with it then you would think that the money was comparable with the knowledge that will come later. we can not deny that there is life on other planets. This latter life is always hidden in the national interest to several large countries.

[Hirose UK]

Stephen hawkings, a russian billionaire, and Mark Zukkenburg have teamed up to launch an extraterrestrial project. Thoughts and info?

I'm not sure it's for finding aliens. it doesn't make any sense and is wasting time for sure. The money is better to use for daily life or to donate to the poor.

and I'm not sure that aliens drown in the movies are real.