It appears the Twitterverse is expanding. San Francisco new-media artist Scott Kildall and his collaborator Nathaniel Stern have started the “Tweets in Space” project, which aims to send messages to the recently discovered planet GJ667Cc. Scientists believe the planet, which they found back in February, has conditions that could support Earth-like life. Now, Kildall and Stern, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin’s Peck School of the Arts, are seeking financial support through the crowd-funding website RocketHub.com. So far, they’re more than a quarter of their way toward a goal of eight-thousand-500-dollars, which should be enough to build what they’re calling a “home-built or borrowed communication system.” Once it’s up and running, those interested will simply have to use the hashtag “tweets in space” to send 140 characters or less into outer space.
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