Millions of Dollars For Extraterrestrial Hunt

摘要

A generous gift has breathed new life into the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. The SETI Institute in Mountain View, California-whose future was looking bleak a year ago because of a lack of funding-has received a $3.5 million donation from Franklin Antonio, co-founder and chief scientist of Qualcomm. The institute will use the new money to improve the sensitivity of its Allen Telescope Array, which searches the cosmos for signals from alien civilizations.