5. The Breakthrough Initiative
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8yOmQvVTFg In July 2015, Stephen Hawking inaugurated humanity's latest attempt to reach out into the cold dark of space in the hope of finding extra-terrestrial life. The 'Breakthrough Initiative' is a 10-year project that will point the Parkes and Green Bank Telescopes in the United States towards the millions of stars and 100 galaxies surrounding Earth, listening out for anomalies and signals that could reveal the presence of extra-terrestrial technologies. The $100 million project has been lauded as the most comprehensive and ambitious attempt yet by humanity to find out if we're alone in the universe. The digi-tons of data generated by the project will also be made publicly available, allowing anyone from hobby scientists to conspiracy theory crackpots to analyse the data and try to answer one of humanity's biggest questions.
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