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The hardware and the software used in the Breakthrough project will be compatible with other telescopes around the world, so they too can search for intelligent life.

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Yuri Milner
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: November 11
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Russian SFSR
Yuri Borisovich Milner
Yuri Bentsionovich Milner
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