Japanese astronomers are honing in on a single star hoping to find proof of life (not the bad Russell Crowe movie). Here's hoping, if they find something, it's not King Ghidorah.
Japan's biggest astronomical observatories are teaming up for an unprecedented quest to find out whether there is life in outer space.
The project, led by Japanese astronomers, will bring together a dozen or more observatories from all over the country to study one star that researchers see as a potential home to an extraterrestrial civilization.
Source: "Life in outer space? Astronomers hunt aliens" by Reuters
The odds of this actually finding anything have got to be the cosmic equivalent of picking the proverbial needle from the haystack but I wish them luck!
Lopan: There are many mysteries, many unanswerable questions, even in a life as short as yours.
Jack Burton: Yeah, well, the way I see it, that doesn't mean we shouldn't ask.
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