Are we alone in the Universe? That's the question a new $100 million search for extra-terrestrial intelligence wants to answer. Famed cosmologist Professor Stephen Hawking has given his blessing to the project. RT is joined by Russian Internet billionaire Yuri Milner the one footing the bill for the new search.

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