Planetary Resources Needs Your Help to Hunt for Alien Planets

http://spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=40994

A private little space telescope (15 kg)

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1458134548/arkyd-a-space-telescope-for-everyone-0

I honestly don't know if this project is a good thing or a bad thing, but either way, it is kinda depressing that they have to appeal to people's vanity in order to get things done, if that is even their goal in the first place. :/