{"id":74765,"date":"2017-12-31T00:42:29","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T08:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/russian-billionaire-sets-up-an-alien-hunting-mission-to-saturn-moon"},"modified":"2018-01-07T12:14:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T20:14:51","slug":"russian-billionaire-sets-up-an-alien-hunting-mission-to-saturn-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/russian-billionaire-sets-up-an-alien-hunting-mission-to-saturn-moon","title":{"rendered":"Russian Billionaire Sets up an Alien-hunting Mission to Saturn Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/russian-billionaire-sets-up-an-alien-hunting-mission-to-saturn-moon.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Russian tech tycoon turned-ET wayfarer Yuri Milner says he intends to beat NASA to a mission to the Saturn moon Enceladus looking for alien lifeforms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em class=\"\">The one overarching question we are asking at our foundation is: \u2018Are we alone in the universe?<\/em>\u2019\u201d said Milner, who has swore over $200 million to the Breakthrough Initiative, an association he established in 2015 that observes space, and grows new methods for infinite travel.<\/p>\n<p>Talking at a Seattle gathering, \u2018A New Space Age\u2019, Milner said his science group agrees there are three potential areas for additional earthly lifeforms in our close planetary system: under the surface of Mars, Jupiter\u2019s moon Europa, and \u201cthe most encouraging competitor,\u201d Enceladus.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@monica_milner\/russian-billionaire-sets-up-an-alien-hunting-mission-to-saturn-moon-ae8d1284ffcc\">https:\/\/medium.com\/@monica_milner\/russian-billionaire-sets-u...8d1284ffcc<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian tech tycoon turned-ET wayfarer Yuri Milner says he intends to beat NASA to a mission to the Saturn moon Enceladus looking for alien lifeforms. \u201cThe one overarching question we are asking at our foundation is: \u2018Are we alone in the universe?\u2019\u201d said Milner, who has swore over $200 million to the Breakthrough Initiative, an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74847,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74765\/revisions\/74847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}