Yuri Milner
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Sep 29, 2026
Richard BakerHOST
We've talked about a guy in previous episodes, Robert Bigelow, the former owner of the Skinwalker Ranch, has put a lot of his own money into chasing down UAP activity and other phenomena.
Richard BakerHOST
Yuri Milner, a guy who's invested 100 mil back in 2015 to fund a UC Berkeley study called Breakthrough Listen.
Richard BakerHOST
And this space is constantly moving and new things are being added into the mix.
Richard BakerHOST
And this year we've had a warning from a really prominent UAP investigator, Jeremy Corbell.
Ben BradfordHOST
of any biotech venture.
Ben BradfordHOST
Susan says investors include entrepreneur Yuri Milner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
Susan DominusGUEST
Allegedly, all in the name of we're going to be the ones to reverse aging, essentially.
Ben BradfordHOST
She says Altos Labs has consistently plucked some of the most prestigious minds in the field to come behind its walls.
Harry StebbingsHOST
What was the best VC meeting you've ever had?
Alex MashrabovGUEST
Obviously, um, Yuri Milner gets, gets it.
Alex MashrabovGUEST
When you just-
Harry StebbingsHOST
How, how was that meeting? Like, was it, was it in person?
Steven A. BennerGUEST
So if I can persuade, you know, Jeff Bezos or.
Steven A. BennerGUEST
Yuri Milner is another person who has been interested in this.
Steven A. BennerGUEST
He runs the Breakthrough Foundation.
Steven A. BennerGUEST
If we can make the case so persuasive that it's going to have to be done with a private support, that some of them get involved because they would love to be the people who identify or confirm what NASA already saw in 1976.
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David LivingstonHOST
Whatever.
Steven A. BennerGUEST
Yeah, no, I'm funded by NASA to develop the chemistry of Europa and life.
Steven A. BennerGUEST
Obviously, Enceladus, Yuri Milner, who runs the Breakthrough Foundation, he was interested in the water jets coming out of subsurface ice and ocean on Enceladus.
Steven A. BennerGUEST
Jan Spacek has just got a case for Venus, the sulfuric acid clouds.
Lawrence M. KraussHOST
Mm-hmm.
John GertzGUEST
When Yuri Milner stepped forward to wr- with the $100 million-
Lawrence M. KraussHOST
Yeah
John GertzGUEST
... we never dreamed of, uh, you know, that just one person would do it all.
David KippingHOST
So instead, let's replace the sun with a series of laser beams to get things moving faster.
David KippingHOST
Silicon Valley billionaire Yuri Milner seed-funded a $100 million project to reach Alpha Centauri in his lifetime, and he gathered a group of brilliant physicists to figure out how, and light cells was the answer that they converged upon.
David KippingHOST
Named Breakthrough Starshot, this project proposes to use an array of 100 gigawatt lasers, yes, gigawatt, aimed at a curved sail a few meters across and weighing just a few grams, and that will accelerate it to about 20% the speed of light.
David KippingHOST
There are many engineering challenges here.
James Sobel KellyNARRATOR
It was never built, and Congress ended NASA's modest funding for SETI projects in 1993.
James Sobel KellyNARRATOR
Since then, all U.S. efforts have been privately funded, mainly by billionaires such as Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, and Yuri Milner, a Soviet-born entrepreneur.
James Sobel KellyNARRATOR
Advances in computer technology mean that today's SETI efforts are vastly more sophisticated than half a century ago, able to examine millions of radio channels from tens of thousands of galaxies.
James Sobel KellyNARRATOR
But the result remains the same.
David KippingHOST
15 years after that project ended, the spark renewed.
David KippingHOST
Silicon Valley billionaire, Yuri Milner, audaciously invited a group of physicists to his home to tackle the problem.
David KippingHOST
His question was blunt.
David KippingHOST
Given our existing technology and the known laws of physics, is there any way, any way at all that we could plausibly send a probe to another star system in our lifetime? The crack team, including Sir Martin Rees, Freeman Dyson and Stephen Hawking converged on a solution, their best bet, a laser propelled light sail.
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