<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>http://news.yahoo.com/nasa-telescopes-planet-hunting-days-may-over-202309584.html<br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span>Kind of related to the Fermi Paradox discussion. Well, at least, planet finders give us some baseline for the Drake equation -- some values to plug-in (those with the other unknowns, what does this matter?) -- and an idea of what's out there in terms of planets. And, of course, other missions like COROT and terrestrial efforts still continue.</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:
12pt; "></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "> </div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Regards,<br><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Dan<br> See my SF short story "Residue":<br>http://www.amazon.com/Residue-ebook/dp/B00BS3T0RM/ -- US<br>http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00BS3T0RM -- UK<br>http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00BS3T0RM -- Canada</div></div></body></html>