data needed

We are almost to the point where finding an extra-solar planet is no long worth a press release.
But the qusetion is how many stars have been examined and nothing found? (Finding meaning to the
limits of measurability of course.)

It would be of interest to know if the find rate is 1% or 99%. The higher the more confident we
would be in saying a star without planets is the rarity and therefore negligable. That gets us half
way to one of the Drake equation constants.

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