<![CDATA[Google Takes Initiative to Find Extraterrestrials by 2012 - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Google Takes Initiative to Find Extraterrestrials by 2012 - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Google Takes Initiative to Find Extraterrestrials by 2012]]> @etwarrior: That was exactly my thought. At a guess, because Kepler has a fairly narrow viewing angle, they may be trying to do the same thing for cheaper, and then point it in other directions for the sake of redundancy.

icelight

]]> <![CDATA[Google Takes Initiative to Find Extraterrestrials by 2012]]> You'd think a place like MIT might at least be aware of other major NASA missions that are going to do exactly this, and will be launching in less than two years. [kepler.nasa.gov]

etwarrior

]]> <![CDATA[Google Takes Initiative to Find Extraterrestrials by 2012]]> Good to see Google money going, period

MaxTwice

]]> <![CDATA[Google Takes Initiative to Find Extraterrestrials by 2012]]> I'm all for seeing the pretty pictures of planets in other systems. Good to see google money going for this sort of science.

Jeff-Minor

]]> <![CDATA[Google Takes Initiative to Find Extraterrestrials by 2012]]> cant wait to see the google map on these ones!

ineffable.me

]]> <![CDATA[Google Takes Initiative to Find Extraterrestrials by 2012]]> So a set of Google datacenters become self aware, call themselves, oh, I dunno, Wintermute, and find another entity like themselves orbiting a nearby star?

gfburke

]]> <![CDATA[Google Takes Initiative to Find Extraterrestrials by 2012]]> Ten bucks says that if Google or any other corporation finds an unpopulated Earth-like planet out there, they'll immediately claim ownership.

If they find a populated Earth-like planet, they'll still claim ownership, but will have to be sneakier about it.

Scotus

]]> <![CDATA[Google Takes Initiative to Find Extraterrestrials by 2012]]> according to the Mayans, the world ends in 2012, so if Google can move it up just a hair, that'd be rad. According to the straight-to-video '2012 Doomsday' movie that just came out, there will be polar shifts and cataclysms of Christian proportions, and according to '2012', which comes out in 2009, and was written by Roland Emmerich (10,000 B.C., The Day After Tomorrow), all sorts of natural disasters will ensue. So yeah, get that thing launched in 2011.

2012 Doomsday - [www.imdb.com]
2012 - [www.imdb.com]

wilmawonker

]]> <![CDATA[Google Takes Initiative to Find Extraterrestrials by 2012]]> TESS could launch in 2012, and we could be making friends with aliens by 2013.

Assuming we break the speed of light barrier in 2011.

desiredusername

]]> <![CDATA[Google Takes Initiative to Find Extraterrestrials by 2012]]> I guess they have become bored with earth and have decided to move on.

Gann

]]> <![CDATA[Google Takes Initiative to Find Extraterrestrials by 2012]]> "...activate long range sensors..."
"it's an M class planet sir. 22.56 light years from here"

deckard97

]]> <![CDATA[Google Takes Initiative to Find Extraterrestrials by 2012]]> stat.

MaxTwice

]]> <![CDATA[Google Takes Initiative to Find Extraterrestrials by 2012]]> Google conducts torture upon its customers

MaxTwice

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