[KevinDavis]

Cool...

[KevinDavis]

[tet68]

Nuller, nuller, neener, neener.

[airborne]

To boldly go...

[cripplecreek]

I haven't lost hope that in my lifetime we'll be able to photograph extrasolar planets as clearly as those in our own solar system. That should give the younguns a nudge.

[strategofr]

"So far, scientists around the world have found 150 planets orbiting other stars. Most are giants, like Jupiter; none is as small as Earth. Scientists believe the best odds of finding life outside our solar system are on Earth-sized planets, particularly those with the right temperature, density and chemistry."

I'm in my 50s, and the march of science in my own lifetime is amazing to me. This is one great example. I can now hope we will find life on another planet within my own lifetime. This amazes me.

[inquest]

the dream of answering those questions is no longer light-years away.

I can't believe someone at NASA wrote that.

[RightWhale]

2011 is the launch date of the earthlike planet finder scope. The excitement should start building sometime soon, because this is the real deal. It will be able to see and sort of image another blue marble out to 50 or 500 lightyears.

[King Prout]

up your alleys, I expect