[ExI] Kepler's planet finding days might be over

[Tomaz Kristan]

Has the Kepler found an Earth like planet? AFAIK it has not.

The marketing was, that it will be able to find the oxygen absorption lines
and therefore planets with the molecular oxygen in the atmosphere and
therefore planet with likely life. Besides, it will be able to scan hundred
of thousands of stars at once, so the chances are superb, to find life.

That was the marketing at the beginning of the mission.

(Very much like robotic searching the fossils on Mars, which eventually
failed to find  a single drop of water there.)

I am glad, the life is rare.




On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 3:40 PM, spike <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org [mailto:
> extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] *On Behalf Of *Dan
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 15, 2013 10:00 PM
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> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] Kepler's planet finding days might be over****
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> Yeah, I should've read you second post before responding to your first.
> The incident reported now is one wheel is not working, but this was already
> after losing another. (The first one went bad last July.)****
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> Ja I should have read the article before I commented.  I had heard they
> went into safe mode but I hadn’t heard it was the second wheel.  Momentum
> wheels shouldn’t fail.  Ball Aerospace is going to take a big hit over
> this, Goodrich is going to take a bigger hit for it, sheesh damn.****
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> *From:* spike <spike at rainier66.com>
> *To:* 'Dan' <dan_ust at yahoo.com>; 'ExI chat list' <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 16, 2013 12:19 AM
> *Subject:* RE: [ExI] Kepler's planet finding days might be over****
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> Ooops I see it has lost a second wheel.  Damn.****
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