[RightWhale]

efforts to look for habitable planets and perhaps life elsewhere in the galaxy

When reported a month ago the reaction was: so, what's that. There is zero interest in finding habitable planets.

[Strategerist]

When reported a month ago the reaction was: so, what's that. There is zero interest in finding habitable planets.

As opposed to interest in Astronauts circling the earth in the Internation Space Station...doing what? Scratching themselves?