Kepler Telescope Ready to Launch

On Thursday, mission commanders announced that NASA's Kepler Space Telescope mission was primed and ready for launch, on the 5th of March, 2009. It took a lot of effort to get here, but now the most recent tool of scouting the Universe for Earth-like, inhabitable planets is ready for deployment. According to the space agency, the instrument will have a range of 3,000 light-years, which means that it has great chances of discovering planets similar to our own in this area.

“We're only two weeks from launch and there's a lot of activities going on down at the Kennedy Space Center right now,” the director of NASA Headquarters' Astrophysics Division in Washington, Jon Morse, says. The new spacecraft is scheduled to leave the Earth carried by a Delta II rocket, which will blast off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. “Most of these planets do not have Earth-like sizes or orbits. I call it our planetary census-taker,” he adds.

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I do hope they find life somewhere else! :)

Some responses from alien encounters/films etc...
Live Long & Prosper.
Na Noo Na Noo.
He's dead Jim.
I'll be back.
You have 30 seconds to comply.
We come in peace.
I've got a bad feeling about this.
I'm afraid I cant do that Dave.

Romulinx2 said:

I do hope they find life somewhere else! :)

Some responses from alien encounters/films etc...
Live Long & Prosper.
Na Noo Na Noo.
He's dead Jim.
I'll be back.
You have 30 seconds to comply.
We come in peace.
I've got a bad feeling about this.
I'm afraid I cant do that Dave.

ROTCL

(Rolling on the ceiling laughing).

You forgot

Beam me up Scottie.

And Dammit Jim! I'm a doctor, not an escalator!

Or even

Windows Seven (of nine)

Resistance is futile

Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix 01

I would have thought tachyon beams and subspace anomalies would be picked up?