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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."

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  1. Re:10.000 in European = 10,000 in the U.S. by NotQuiteReal · · Score: 0, Redundant
    10.000 in Euro = 12.700 in US.

    Sir, your margin of error is enough to buy a Big Mac, or were you planning on eating it yourself!

    Mmmmm hamburgers... I'm hungry now.

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    This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.