NASA's Kepler Mission Extended For Two Years

An anonymous reader writes "A report just released from NASA's senior review panel recommends extending the Kepler mission(Pdf), initially for two years. 'Kepler is not only a unique source of exoplanet discoveries, but also an organizing and rallying point for exo-planet research. It has enabled remarkable stellar science." The scaled-down budget for the extended mission was broadly expected to include funding only for continued operations and management, with no funding for science. Astronomers have already started seeking private funding to continue their Kepler-related work, through crowd-funding websites like PetriDish and FundaGeek, as well as through the non-profit Pale Blue Dot project."

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Re:But it's too expens--OW

[fiannaFailMan]

The resident tedious nit-picking fucks on /. are hard to listen to, aren't they?

I don't know about you but I've started taking a zero tolerance approach to these pedantic assholes who get off on correcting people and divert potentially interesting threads off topic because of the precise meaning of certain words used in a summary, rather than actually talking about the topic at hand.