The search for intelligent alien life began at a goat farm in Israel.
Astrophysicist Avi Loeb was sitting on a barn floor hunched over his laptop devising a scientific way to search for a civilization in outer space. An answer to that age-old question: Are we alone? An Israeli-Russian billionaire was ready to front him $100 million for the project – on the condition that Loeb could prepare a PowerPoint presentation ASAP.
But life, like the universe itself, works in mysterious ways. Loeb was on vacation, six-thousand miles from his office in Cambridge, at a goat farm. And, well, goat farms aren’t known for their great WiFi.
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