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The SETI Institute on Wednesday announced that it received a gift of $200 million from the estate Qualcomm co-founder Franklin Antonio, who passed away on May 13, 2022. Antonio bequeathed the amount to the institute to aid in its search for intelligent alien life.
The California-based SETI Institute, founded in 1984, is a non-profit organisation that seeks to understand the “origins and prevalence of life and intelligence” in the universe. The institute engages in both physical and biological sciences research and makes use of data analytics, machine learning and advanced signal detection technologies in its search for intelligent life outside of the Earth.
It has more than 100 scientists who are working across 173 separate programs in six important scientific disciplines—-astronomy and astrophysics, exoplanets, planetary exploration, astrobiology, climate and bio-geoscience and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence which is where it gets its name from.
The institute in May this year conducted its “A Sign in Space” project to prepare for what to do in case we receive a message from an alien intelligence. The European Space Agency’s Trace Gas Orbiter, which orbits Mars, sent an encrypted message to our planet to simulate that exact scenario.
