https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA6Uu4WnVN0
YouTube video of Yuri Milner, Founder of Breakthrough Initiatives, and Frank Drake being interviewed at a Vanity Fair conference. About 37 minutes long. No really new info for most people here, though, I imagine. But might be worth the watch and relevant to our interests. Host is also a little annoying with interjections and jokes. I thought it would've been nice if they had commented more on their thoughts about the Fermi Paradox, or talked a little more about the hardware and also the distributed computing, SETI at home etc.

Interesting video. I question the statements that there are 50,000 habitable planets in the galaxy and that our radars are visible at 1000 light years. I also question the wisdom of the expense of broadening the frequency spectrum.

We should look at likely light frequencies and microwave frequencies. I think that these are a vey few. I would rather see this money being spent on equipping all of the telescopes and arrays with a processor that would examine the reception as it was being received--shunting off only the most promising ones to a super-computer and discarding the rest. Right now significant processing power can be had for $1000 or less --(look at today's graphics processors in video game boxes).

Attempting to unite all SETI efforts would be the best chance of success in my opinion.

Attempting to unite all SETI efforts would be the best chance of success in my opinion.

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