From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Wed Jan 08 2003 - 04:01:02 MST
Well, it looks like one of Freeman Dyson's ideas is starting
to taxi down the runway.
"Astronomers poised to apply novel way to look for comets beyond Neptune"
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-01/dlnl-apt010703.php
It looks like the TAOS project is getting serious about having
telescopes use occultation astronomy (a Dyson proposal) to look
for Kuiper belt objects. These aren't *really* useful from our
persepctive since the are mostly water and CO2 (though the C may
be useful). But it begins to lay the foundation for the discovery
of "dark objects" that don't happen to be in the Kuiper belt
(or may be in the Kuiper belt if possible ETC want to disguise
themselves).
Robert
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