RE: [semi-OT] extrasolar planets - where are the kra'vak??

>> Further down the road (my estimation ~50 years...
>> they can (or should) be able to pick out Earth-like 
terrestrial
>> planets ...~11 to just shy of 50 lightyears out.
>> 
>> So, with this techonology in the early/mid-21st century, 
why hasn't
>> humanity detected the Kra'Vak homeworld already??  ;-)
>
>a) because the funding go cut and they only covered the 
northern hemisphere sky and the Kra'Vak homeworld is in the 
south...
>b) the Kra'Vak homeworld is 52 light years away ;P

Funny girl.  ;-)   I was thinking in the GZGverse time
shortly before the K'V arrive, not present day.  ;-P

>And if anyone really wants me to describe the intricacies of 
soil bacterial processes I can... it may be a good cure for 
insomniacs in the audience ;)
>
>Love the idea of an ocean planet by the way too! Indy are 
they putting abstracts from the conference up anywhere or are 
the papers going in a symposium journal edition anywhere?

I'm not aware that any of the invited talks are online (at 
least not yet), but some of the poster papers have full papers 
on the astro-ph site (however, none of those talk about 
astrobiology; mainly interested in metallicity of stars with 
exoplanets compared to stars lacking exoplanets appear to also 
be low in metallicity). I'll dig around a bit, though, and see 
what I can find for you.

Mk