The first interstellar journeys to look like planets earth are closer than ever to becoming reality.
At least they believe and bet the teacher and scientist, Stephen Hawking, the founder and CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg and billionaire Yuri Milner .
the latter decided invest US $ 100 million for research and development project Breakthrough Starshot , which was presented this week in New York.
the program is to send micronaves into space to travel much farther and faster than any other in the past, and graben, store and send information to Earth .
sounds like science fiction, but Yuri Milner believes it is technically possible to develop these spacecraft.
“55 years ago Yuri Gagarin became the first human to go into space. Today, we are preparing for the next big leap: the stars “, said at the presentation
But Who is this man 54 years bet millions to discover new homes for humans
Milner with Hawking during the presentation of the project Breakthrough Starshot for interstellar travel <.. /> p>
Yuri Milner was born in Moscow, Russia, in 1961.
and choosing your name seems to have marked your destination .
she told Milner himself in an interview with Time magazine in 2015, his parents named Yuri after the Russian astronaut and first man to reach space in 1961 .
Milner studied Arts and Science at the University of Moscow, but did not finished the race in Physics.
in 1990 moved to the United States where began to amass his fortune financing new companies in the technology sector, such as Twitter and Facebook , through its investment fund DST Global.
in Russia, was also the CEO of Mail.ru, the largest Internet portal that country.
in addition, Milner bet big on Chinese technology companies, including Alibaba online sales companies and JD.Com, and conducted multiple rounds of financing, as detailed Forbes magazine puts you in the position 612 of the ranking of billionaires in the world .
According to the same list, the employer has a fortune of US $ 2,900 million .
Milner sold its shares in e-commerce companies in 2015 for an estimated US $ 700 million.
in 2012, the philanthropist bought the Loire Chateau mansion Palo Alto, about 2,370 square meters in Silicon Valley, as published in the BBC.
That same year Milner joined Sergey Brin of Google and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, among other entrepreneurs, to create the Breakthrough Prize (Revelation Award), an award in several categories that scientists delivered by its progress in this area .
Yuri Milner and Mark Zuckerberg during the delivery of the Breakthrough Prize in 2016.
the winners of the different categories of the latest award received in total US $ 22 million , as described by the breakthroughprize.org website.
the recent announcement of the project for interstellar travel with tiny spaceships, is not the first in which Milner invests millions of dollars.
in 2015, and with the support of professor Hawking, Milner announced participation in financing a project to find out if there really is life or extraterrestrial intelligence by using telescopes advanced technology.
the space is where the multimilonario Yuri Milner put your attention.
for this project called Breakthrough Listen , which has a term of 10 years was also announced an investment of US $ 100 million .
This is a telescope that will look for signs of distant radio in the Solar System .
“The universe is full of life, but probably are not alone. If we’re alone it would be a great loss of property space. But I would not be who judge, just want to help find an answer “Milner said in an interview with Time magazine.
When asked what will happen if there is no funding findings after 10 years, Milner said: “I will invest money for another 10 years. It is our responsibility as human beings continue to seek a signal “
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