Quote of the Week
This is in regards to NASA cutting funding for the Space Interfermetry Mission (SIM), a mission which would be able to do all sorts of awesome things:
The decision to cut funding has not gone down well, with Gould citing "stupidity" as one reason for the cut.The rest of the article, entitled Alien Earth (subscription needed, sorry), is a concise, fairly interesting discussion of the prospects of finding an Earth-like planet around another star, something in which many astronomers have invested a lot of time—and bet money.
-- Nature, Vol 445, 4 January 2007
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