NASA is launching “Kepler” a $600 million telescope this week. Its potential is enormous and the reason of this launch? The mission of Kepler is to measure changes in the brightness of more than 100,000 stars, every 30 minutes, searching for “winks” in light that happen when a planet passes in front of its star.
Kepler has a smaller telescope and will stare at only one field, a large area of the sky in the constellations Cygnus and Lyra.
Kepler’s launch date/time: March 6, 2009 at 10:48 pm EST
I always wondered if we are the only ones out here? There are billions of galaxies (like our Milky Way) and it is pretty hard to digest the fact that we are only (small) occupants in this massive space. So are we billion-to-one chance? Personally, I don’t think so. There must be something out there – somewhere. It is too selfish for me to think that we are the only ones out here. I am not saying an alien life is present but something whose definition of “life” may be different than ours.
Wild thought? What if our past is on one of the planets? What if our future (after life) is on another? which is floating among the billions or galaxies! 
Probably a dumb thought!
