Kepler Mission: why no near planets yet ?

On Oct 8, 12:14*am, "Androcles" wrote:
"Greg Hennessy" wrote in message
They are surely taking and reducing data, and waiting to understand
things before publishing.

I expect a flurry of results next January at the AAS meeting.

"They" is a computer on board the space telescope called "Kepler".
"They" will not be attending any AAS meeting.

*http://kepler.nasa.gov/about/news.html

I doubt the computer aboard the Kepler does anything more than
compress and store the data for transmission back to the computers on
Earth.

Yousuf Khan

On Oct 8, 11:22*am, "Androcles" wrote:
Ok, then "they" is a network of computers.
"They" will not be attending any AAS meeting.

But these computers biological servants, otherwise known as staff
astrophysicists, will be attending these meetings, and they will bring
the words of wisdom from their computer overlords.

I doubt the brain aboard the Yousuf Khan does anything more than
compress and store idiot data for transmission back to the computers on
Usenet.

So clever. Your computer overlord must be proud to have a pet such as
you.

Yousuf Khan