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Shortlist of Possible ET Addresses

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the he-phoned-home-just-trace-the-call dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Yahoo News is reporting that Astronomer Margaret Turnbull of the Carnegie Institution has released a 'top 10' list of potential inhabitable star systems. NASA is planning on using this top 10 list as the targets for their Terrestrial Planet Finder a 'system of two orbiting observatories scheduled for launch by 2020.'"

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  1. Inhabitable? by Haveck · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The quote should read: "Carnegie Institution has released a 'top 10' list of potential habitable star systems"

    ...because it can't be inhabitable, if ET lives there.