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Re: The Future...
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Wed, 10 Jan 2001 02:29:07 GMT
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In lugnet.year.2005, Erik Olson writes:
In lugnet.year.2005, Jonathan Mizner writes:
Is this the first post in 2005?  Technically, it is.  Even though right
now it's only 2001...  I am looking into the future...  What will have
happened?  Will commercial space flights be available?  Will alien life have
been found?  Will Disneyland still be open?  All these question and more,
answered in four more years!

No, it won't all be answered in just four more years. NASA's Kepler space
telescope is contemplated now as a project for launch in 2005. If it makes
it, Kepler will seek out proof of Earth-size planets in neighboring star
systems. The expectation is that 500 Earth-size planets will be found by
2010. Plus lots of big gas balls like Jupiter.

There's always the outside chance that Earth has been cataloged by another
eye in the sky and they will drop in before 2005...

And to keep it on topic, I'd like to project at least a 35% increase in my
Lego collection by then :). Not much admittedly compared to some, but I hope
to have more storage for it by then.

Am I Classic Space complete yet? hmmmm...... what does "Classic Space" mean
in 2005 anyway?

-Tom McD.
when replying, spamcake.. the future of building material.



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(...) No, it won't all be answered in just four more years. NASA's Kepler space telescope is contemplated now as a project for launch in 2005. If it makes it, Kepler will seek out proof of Earth-size planets in neighboring star systems. The (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.year.2005)

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