<div dir="ltr">Has the Kepler found an Earth like planet? AFAIK it has not.<div><br></div><div style>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.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>That was the marketing at the beginning of the mission.</div><div style><br></div><div style>(Very much like robotic searching the fossils on Mars, which eventually failed to find  a single drop of water there.)</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>I am glad, the life is rare.</div><div style><br></div><div style><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 3:40 PM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dan<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 15, 2013 10:00 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'ExI chat list'<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Kepler's planet finding days might be over<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<div><div class="im"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">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.)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dan<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">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.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> spike <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>><br>
<b>To:</b> 'Dan' <<a href="mailto:dan_ust@yahoo.com" target="_blank">dan_ust@yahoo.com</a>>; 'ExI chat list' <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 16, 2013 12:19 AM<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [ExI] Kepler's planet finding days might be over</span><span style><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white">
<span style><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Ooops I see it has lost a second wheel.  Damn.</span><span style><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">spike</span><span style><u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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