Is this a smart, stragegic way to look for extraterrestrials?  Apparently there is a team with a cost effective and potentially efficient idea:

Even with about 2,000 confirmed planets found outside the solar system, we know so little about them. What are they made of? Are their atmospheres habitable? What weather exists?

It will take a whole new generation of “big-eyed” telescopes to learn more, such as the James Webb Space Telescope that launches in 2018. But here’s a twist — one European team says it can do exoplanet science for a lot less.

Let’s see how they plan to improve the search for extraterrestrials in the video on page 2

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