There are 400 billion stars in the galaxy, and obviously we are not going to point the Terrestrial Planet Finder at every one of them.

These are places I would want to live if God were to put our planet around another star.

If TPF is not canceled, these are the places where we will search.

It's all but shelved at this point ... pretty much all the research we've talked about is in peril.

This all comes down to what we know about life on Earth.