Microsoft's Allen funds extraterrestrial search
Reuters | at | by Mike
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has donated $13.5 million to help fund the search for extraterrestrial life. The California-based SETI Institute, which is dedicated to the search for life beyond Earth, said the donation from Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates, would be used to create a radio telescope array of more than 200 satellite dishes that will measure signals from space.
"An instrument of this magnitude ... will result in the expansion of our understanding of how the universe was formed, and how it has evolved and our place therein," Allen said in a statement.