Russian Billionaire Pledges $100 Million For US Research On Alien Life

Russian billionaire Yuri Milner plans to invest $100 million on a team of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, to learn more about intelligent alien life. The venture capitalist's claim to fame in the U.S. were his early bets on Twitter and Facebook. With the influx of cash, the researchers will reportedly be able to collect more data in one day than they previously collected in a year. The team will rent two of the largest telescopes in the world for their research for the nex...