Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Europe's New ET Life Search Programme

Posted by Hemos on from the testing-the-galaxy dept.

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."

4 of 221 comments (clear)

  1. Talk about accuracy... by over_exposed · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...a mission consisting of 10.000 3-metre mirror telescopes.

    This is an upgrade to previous versions of the plan that called for 8.735 3-metre mirror telescopes. Adding that 1.265 mirrors really helps I'm sure.

    --
    "The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his." - Patton
  2. 10,000? by turboflux · · Score: 5, Funny

    10,000 satellites...

    *Collective shudder from Chinese villagers*

  3. The reason we've haven't found aliens by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is because we've been searching using imperial-measure radio wavelengths. Once we switch to metric wavelengths and start decoding in French, we'll finally be able to understand them.

  4. Re:Whats with the EU using '.' instead of ',' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    And furthermore, why can't you all speak English and have a representative democracy just like ours? Also, please get rid of any parts of your culture that are not identical to my own. Thanks, n1ywb.