man that walked on the moon, gene cernan. harrison schmidt is with us. what do you make of this discovery? like so many scientific discoveries, it s phenomenal. always great to see that all the resources that we put into these major telescopes that nasa and other countries operate, that they re producing results like this. it s exciting. it s a long way from being definitive with respect to light forms. still exciting to do now and prove what most of us i think always believed and that the statistics favor very strongly finding earth-like planets around sun-like or near sun-like stars. neil: i said last when we were together was for gene