Kepler Spacecraft To Hunt For Alien Earths

When the predictions of a million Science Fiction novels and movies are about to come true,  it demands a post here at SciFiCool. Plus, the alien parasite grafted to my primary motor cortex demands it. I am powerless to resist.

The Kepler is a 600 million dollar craft that blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida yesterday. Kepler will have it’s own orbit around the sun and will scan the sky between constellations Cygnus and Lyra and hopefully, in time, find Tatooine or Naboo. As I understand it, Kepler may also be useful in searching our own backyard of space stuff for possible hidden planet 9 or even perhaps to discover giant hurtling space rocks of doom, courses plotted to smush mother Earth. Kepler gets my vote as probe of the year

Via Space.com