Does Life Exist

[oleg]

Originally posted by Gozra:
...At any rate NASA has a money budgeted and a launch date for 2012 to send a satillite out specifically to look for planets like ours. I am looking forward to the results.

Are you sure it will come so soon ? Last time I logged into NASA site it was 2025. And it can not be one satellite, we must have at least two to make the interferometer images of close stars. I think - not sure anymore.

[oleg]

Originally posted by Gozra:
...At any rate NASA has a money budgeted and a launch date for 2012 to send a satillite out specifically to look for planets like ours. I am looking forward to the results.

Are you sure it will come so soon ? Last time I logged into NASA site it was 2025. And it can not be one satellite, we must have at least two to make the interferometer images of close stars. I think - not sure anymore.

[geoschmo]

It has occured to me my previous remarks about the unlikelyhood of us ever getting out of our own system were a bit pessimistic. If one considers the potential of nano-technology it may be possible someday. If you can conceive of a ship that is maintained and repaired by billions of microscopic nano-bots scouring the ship and making repairs at the molecular level, it's conceivable that we could build a ship that could travel for hundreds, even thousands of years and arrive at it's destination in the same pristine condition that it left Earth.

[Suicide Junkie]

Are you sure it will come so soon ? Last time I logged into NASA site it was 2025. And it can not be one satellite, we must have at least two to make the interferometer images of close stars. I think - not sure anymore.

You need two cameras... It could still be one satellite with a long arm that separates the cameras once in space.

[Gozra]

http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/SIM/sim_index.html

This project is due to launch in 2009. part of its mission is to search for planets about the size of ours.