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December 7, 2011 08:05 am

US Air Force Pays SETI To Check Kepler-22b For Alien Life


New submitter iComp writes with this quote from El Reg:"The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has announced that it is back in business checking out the new [potentially] habitable exoplanets recently discovered by NASA's Kepler space telescope to see if they might be home to alien civilizations. The cash needed to restart SETI's efforts has come in part from the U.S. Air Force Space Command, who are interested in using the organization's detection instruments for 'space situational awareness'."

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