From my point of view, I think this is cool project to do not waste my cpu´s cicles.
I´m a Carl Sagan´s fan since I was a little kid. First time I saw COSMOS I was 4 or 5 years old. So this is my personal tribute to him and the other people who works trying to discover new life forms beyond our solar sistem.
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