Vanderbilt Spends Multi Billion Endowment on Scholarships, Searching for Aliens

Posted by CommodoreGirl 06/12/2008 10:36 AM

ET Says: "Which way to Sportsmann's?"

This week, scientists at Vanderbilt's Dyer Observatory revealed the KELT, which, although it sounds like some sort of Japanese food that would go well with my spicy tuna roll, is in reality the world's second "planet finder telescope."

The planet finder telescope will be searching for planets that orbit stars that are not the sun and resemble Earth.

Aka, while we are gone for the summer, Vanderbilt will be spending its endowment on finding aliens. As if we don't have to deal with enough awkwardness during rush.