http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/nov/HQ_M10-167_Astrobiology.html
QuoteWASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 2, to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe.
The news conference will be held at the NASA Headquarters auditorium at 300 E St. SW, in Washington. It will be broadcast live on NASA Television and streamed on the agency's website at http://www.nasa.gov.
Now that's a teaser...
First Contact Day!
:tinfoilhat:
Could be interesting. I love The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/30/nasa_aliens_revelations/)'s take on it, with the headline, "NASA to make MAJOR ALIENS REVELATION this week".
QuoteBut, until the embargo on the NASA story this week ends, we can't reveal what it is that the space boffins are going to announce. Now is surely the time for wild and colourful speculation, not dull scientific fact.
Quote from: Pastor-Mullah Zappathruster on November 30, 2010, 11:23:20 PM
Could be interesting. I love The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/30/nasa_aliens_revelations/)'s take on it, with the headline, "NASA to make MAJOR ALIENS REVELATION this week".
QuoteBut, until the embargo on the NASA story this week ends, we can't reveal what it is that the space boffins are going to announce. Now is surely the time for wild and colourful speculation, not dull scientific fact.
:lulz:
Wild speculation 1-
Government is beating Wikileaks to it. US has in fact been in contact with alien civilizations for decades. That was Assange's insurance policy. He will now mysteriously commit suicide.
Wild speculation 2-
Jesus has returned to Earth, revealing that the Bible is literally true and it really is just us out here.
Ok people, lets keep it up!
And the wild and colorful speculation by the news media has begun:
http://news.google.com/news/more?q=astrobiology+finding&hl=en&safe=off&prmd=ivn&resnum=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ncl=d82J2v4bJpRSmAMLgRFLGGlVTBfvM&ei=HIv1TMqFOsK88gbA-8HZBQ&sa=X&oi=news_result&ct=more-results&resnum=1&ved=0CCMQqgIwAA
Quote"So, if I had to guess at what NASA is going to reveal on Thursday, I'd say that they've discovered arsenic on Titan and maybe even detected chemical evidence of bacteria utilizing it for photosynthesis (by following the elements)," Kottke wrote.
more by Jason Kottke - 6 hours ago - Atlanta Journal Constitution
Wild Speculation 3 - NASA has discovered an "Independence Day" style mothership speeding towards Earth. It found us by following our SETI signals.
ETA: and these aliens have seen the movie, so they aren't going to fall for the trick where we sneak a nuke on board in one of their fighters.
Quote from: Pastor-Mullah Zappathruster on November 30, 2010, 11:45:53 PM
Wild Speculation 3 - NASA has discovered an "Independence Day" style mothership speeding towards Earth. It found us by following our SETI signals.
ETA: and these aliens have seen the movie, so they aren't going to fall for the trick where we sneak a nuke on board in one of their fighters.
They've also made sure that their computers aren't compatible with Mac laptop link ups
Wild speculation 4-
We successfully developed FTL/Spacefolding/discovered a wormhole during the Clinton administration. We've been using it ever since. We've discovered primitive humanoid life elsewhere and we;ve been abducting them and probing them.
We're the aliens bitches!
Wild speculation 5 - NASA detected the souls of the Heaven's Gate cult riding around in the tail of the Hale Bopp comet.
Wild speculation 6 - A DC-9 full of Psychlos and piloted by Xenu is headed to Earth.
Wild Speculation 7- The Elohim bringing Rael back from a weekend bender
Wild Speculation 8- Space battle going on between two different races round about Jupiter way
Wild Speculation 9 - the NASA labs synthesize some seriously potent LSD
#10 - President Obama, trying to save face with the new GOP majority in the House, has replaced top NASA officials with Southern Baptist clergymen, and the search for extraterrestrial life has been called off, because it isn't in the Bible.
11- NASA finally reveals that our world leaders have always been space reptiles.
12 - They'll unzip their human skin and reveal that they're all velociraptors, and we'll all suddenly remember that we are too. Yay!
13- Borg cube.
14> Nancy Pelosi is a reptilian shapeshifter.
15- We're the aliens part 2: Turns out we're actually descended from stranded colonists, homeworld finally getting around to seeing what happened to us.
16. It's dildoes all the way down.
17. They actually had the Hubble turned around backwards and we've all be staring at extreme close-ups of Oprah's ass this whole time.
Quote from: postvex™ on December 01, 2010, 03:34:22 AM
17. They actually had the Hubble turned around backwards and we've all be staring at extreme close-ups of Oprah's ass this whole time.
:mittens:
Quote from: postvex™ on December 01, 2010, 03:34:22 AM
17. They actually had the Hubble turned around backwards and we've all be staring at extreme close-ups of Oprah's ass this whole time.
Or the magnification was inverted and we've been looking at tiny space microbes.
Quote from: postvex™ on December 01, 2010, 01:17:46 AM
#10 - President Obama, trying to save face with the new GOP majority in the House, has replaced top NASA officials with Southern Baptist clergymen, and the search for extraterrestrial life has been called off, because it isn't in the Bible.
Dude, haven't you read Ezekiel? It's totally in the bible, man!
Quote from: Triple Zero on December 01, 2010, 11:06:33 AM
Quote from: postvex™ on December 01, 2010, 01:17:46 AM
#10 - President Obama, trying to save face with the new GOP majority in the House, has replaced top NASA officials with Southern Baptist clergymen, and the search for extraterrestrial life has been called off, because it isn't in the Bible.
Dude, haven't you read Ezekiel? It's totally in the bible, man!
:lulz:
Man, It sucked to be Ezekiel. Abducted by aliens, had to eat poop bread....
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/compost/2010/12/the_big_announcement_nasa_find.html Bacteria with arsenic based DNA were discovered in California.
So I guess the next question is, what happened here? Are these a mutated strain of bacteria, a separate abiogenesis event, or space germs? :lulz:
This is pretty cool though.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/12/02/nasa.extraterrestrial.life/index.html?hpt=T1
Scientists have discovered a form of bacteria that can thrive on arsenic -- an element generally considered toxic -- dramatically expanding both traditional notions of how life is sustained and the range of where it might be found in the universe, NASA funded-researchers said Thursday.
"Life as we know it requires particular chemical elements and excludes others," Arizona State University researcher Ariel Anbar said in a news release. "But are those the only options? How different could life be?"
The bacterium not only grew but also incorporated the arsenic molecules into its DNA, in place of phosphorus, she said.
Very interesting.
Filthy hipster bacteria.
"Oh yeah I used to use phosphorus until it got mainstream. Now Im really into arsenic, youve probably never heard of it its pretty obscure."
LIFE
dun dun dunt nuh nuhhh
LIFE IS LIFE
dun dun dunt nuh nuhhh
That... is... awesome! Take that intro to biology! :lulz:
QuoteNASA's Newly Discovered Arsenic-Loving Bacteria Are Fascinating, but Not Aliens [Updated + Video]
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-12/nasa-announces-strange-bacterial-behavior-raising-questions-alien-life-hunters
Seems more like breeding a new subspecies not proving anything "new"
then again I'm not someone who said life requires these elements
This is pretty exciting.