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world-renowned theoretical physicist cosmologist and best-selling author Stephen Hawking is throwing his support behind a 100 million dollar project to contact extraterrestrial life scanning millions of nearby stars the project is called breakthrough initiatives and it's funded by Russian entrepreneur and venture capitalists Yuri Milner breakthrough initiatives will utilize two large telescopes the 100 metre Green Bank telescope in West Virginia and the 64 meter Parkes telescope in New South Wales Australia according to Milner the project is the biggest alien hunting exercise ever undertaken and will scan five times a radio spectrum of previous sky scanning programs and do it with 100 times greater speed with equipment that is 50 times more sensitive Stephen Hawking is known for some of his past quotes on the matter of aliens including this quote from naked science on the National Geographic Channel in 2004 where he said well it seems like mr. Hawking is changing his tune a bit with respect to finding aliens stating on Monday at the breakthrough initiatives launch event intelligence made me watching these lights of our aware of what they be or at the letter lights wander a lifeless cosmos this times are committed to finding the answer to search for life the younger