APOD: Closest Star has Potentially Planet... (2016 Aug 25)

[ta152h0]

those radio scienrists ............

[Ann]

A radio announcer filled my ears with the notion tht with the current state of rocketry, we can get there in 50 years.

That would probably refer to the Starchip Mission to Alpha Centauri.

I had forgotten that one. It was fun to read it through again.

But if we want to go to Proxima Centauri using Starchips, we might want to make peoplechips to go with them.

Ann

[rstevenson]

A radio announcer filled my ears with the notion tht with the current state of rocketry, we can get there in 50 yeara.

I recommend a cotton swab, with or without pigtails.

Rob

[ta152h0]

New Horizons, a super compct car with an enormous rocket took 9 years to get to Pluto, and that was iffy the last week or so

[Fred the Cat]

Space X will launch MIT's next transit observer next year I heard this weekend. On a shoestring budget in the millions rather than billions of Kepler. Quite a design feat.

TESS. ItTy bitty tEleScopes in Space Maybe SETI could use your help with your own one? Too bad it can't listen at 1420.

[bystander]

Space X will launch MIT's next transit observer next year I heard this weekend. On a shoestring budget in the millions rather than billions of Kepler. Quite a design feat.

TESS. ItTy bitty tEleScopes in Space Maybe SETI could use your help with your own one? Too bad it can't listen at 1420.

TESS: Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=31141

[Fred the Cat]

Nice things about acronyms. You can always imagine your own. Tell ET NASA's Searching.