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How would you spend $200 million? That’s the welcome dilemma facing the SETI Institute. Franklin Antonio, a founder of Qualcomm, bequeathed $200 million to the SETI Institute last year. It is an enormous endowment — twice what Breakthrough Listen spent to utterly transform SETI over the past decade.