Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Stare down five million stars for three years ~ find planets


Telescopes plus rocketry plus materials science plus quantum physics plus a theory of computation equals a good calibration of the frequency of earth like planets by the decades end.

Thats science and technology for you. Finding tiny periodic dips in brightness in a million stars all at once.

Lets see who blinks first.

http://kepler.nasa.gov/

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