Fifty years ago this week, a young Cornell University scientist named Frank Drake pointed a radio telescope at a distant star, hoping to hear transmissions from an alien civilization.
VOA: standard.2010.04.16
Astronomers say they have found a planet orbiting adistantstar that's more like the Earth than any other found so far.
Premise: that the moon is really a disguised spaceship from adistantstar that, after a botched mutiny, has sat dormant for 50, 000 years, its crew having abandoned ship for Earth.
The probe was built with four reaction wheels and needs three of them -- one for each axis -- to aim its telescope precisely at adistantstar, deputy project manager Charlie Sobeck said.