re: Flapping Lid. - Thanks, Socs! About Lyra...
Actually it's the Cygnus-Lyra region:
[The Kepler mission will be looking continuously at over 100,000 stars in one region of the sky, in the Cygnus and Lyra constellations. The field of view is extremely large for an astronomical telescope. Most telescopes such as Hubble Space Telescope only view a small region at one time, about the size of a grain of sand held at arms length. Kepler covers a much larger field, about an hand at arm’s length or 2 dips from the Big Dipper.]
From: kepler.nasa.gov
I as well as most here hope that 'something' will turn up.