Europe's New ET Life Search Programme

hotsauce writes "The Guardian has a report on Europe's ambitious new programme to search for extra terrestial life. ESA has started a program called Cosmic Visions which will launch a series of satelites, starting with Gaia in 2011, and possibly culminating with the Exo-Earth Imager, a mission consisting of 10.000 3-metre mirror telescopes. The French are leading the charge with Corot in 2008."

Comments

Re:10.000 in European = 10,000 in the U.S.

[GCP]

Yes, and for those who don't know, it is an error to write ten thousand as 10.000 when you are writing in English, regardless of your nationality. Using English as your language but a period/full stop as your thousands separator means you have an inconsistent localization, requiring the need for a "translation" such as the parent post to finish the job. Likewise, it is an error for an English speaker to use commas as thousands separators when writing in a language such as German.