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Distant Planet Imaging Project Gets More Funding
It doesn't come easy writes "NASA's Institute for Advanced Concepts has chosen a proposal by the University of Colorado (UC) at Boulder to image distant planets around other stars for a second round of funding. Known as the New Worlds Observer, the UC project is for an orbiting, soccer-field sized "starshade" shaped like a daisy that would funnel light from distant planets between its petals to a second spacecraft trailing 50,000 miles behind. If the concept proves feasible, it could 'identify planetary features like oceans, continents, polar caps and cloud banks, and even detect biomarkers like methane, water, oxygen and ozone [...]'"
...we can see them building the invasion fleet in time.
Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration, which is why engineers sometimes smell really bad.
Google plans to unveil their new software aptly named 'Google Solar System', which sews the surface maps of the planets together for an interactive flythrough.
Colonel Cranium this is Rectal Reconnaissance, we are on a collision course sir, Abort Abort!
> it could 'identify planetary features like oceans,
> continents, polar caps and cloud banks, and even
> detect biomarkers like methane
The bad part will come with version 3.0, launched in the later part of this century, when we zoom on on their alien babes on beaches, and see if they have silly laws regulating nudity, too. Or churches.
Quite frankly, I'd be way more scared if they had churches than if they did not.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
That's right. You show me some ET's, and I'll show you some Christians that want to baptize them.
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