OT: Kepler's Tally of Planets

[Mark Wieder]

Roger-

Friday, April 19, 2013, 10:59:34 AM, you wrote:

> Thanks for this, Mark. It is indeed beautiful and informative! As
> you may know, SETI is focusing their attention on Kepler planets.

It's especially exciting and timely in that NASA just made the
announcement today about Kepler 62.

after the jump...

That prospect raises some fascinating possibilities - including
that populations of aliens from each planet may already have
communicated, even met, each other. "Imagine looking through a
telescope to see another world with life just a few million miles from
your own, or having the capability to travel between them on regular
basis," says Kepler team member Dimitar Sasselov, also at Harvard. "I
can't think of a more powerful motivation to become a space-faring
society."

<http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/04/nasa-announces-the-discovery-of-the-most-interesting-planetary-system-outside-our-own/275119/>

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-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net