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Old 06-12-2011, 09:11 AM
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Craig, maybe life will not be detected in our lifetime but we have to start somewhere. It is exciting to see that the discoveries are locating smaller and smaller planets. I know that looking at the Keplar data is quite challenging to locate dips in the luminosity of the star.

What is hopeful is now we are at the science stage to locate planets smaller than larger Jupiters and now we are entering the stage of locating potential water bearing planets.

It is truly exciting stuff.