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Palomar

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From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

Posts: 9,734

Re: Allen's Huge SETI Donation

http://www.spacedaily.com/2004/04031922 … html]Click

*Co-founder of Microsoft makes $13.5 million donation to SETI, for construction of "Allen Telescope Array (ATA), a network of 350 radio telescopes being built to find signs of life in space..."

Also:  "The radio telescopes will measure the density of the early universe, the formation of stars and magnetic fields."

Multipurpose, then.  Actually, this is his *2nd* such donation; recently he donated $11.5 million, for a total donation of $25 million.  How generous!

Terrific   

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Rxke

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2003-11-03

Posts: 3,669

Re: Allen's Huge SETI Donation

He's also the money backer behind SS1, Rutan's suborbital 'space' plane...