NASA to Hold News Conference on Astrobiology Discovery

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"an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life."

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2010/M10-110.html

Shit nigga, what did they find? That rhetorical of course. Wonder if they found women on Venus and men on Mars.

This is quite exciting.

Maybe they have discovered that Astrobiology is really hard

They're saying its a finding that will impact the search. E.g. they've run some models and life might be more likely to exist at a certain depth in soil or a certain temperature range, so they're going to look there. Something like that I reckon.

i.e. not something particularly exciting

Still exciting though.

I believe you are mistaken as to the potential excitingness of this.

Nonetheless, and hypocritically, I remain slightly excited myself.

  On 11/30/2010 at 12:45 AM, chaosmachine said:

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"an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life."

 

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2010/M10-110.html

that sounds kinda vague, I hope it's not too disappointing

Astrobiology is the future!

Maybe they will finally send a submarine to Europa. They think it might harvest life under its icey exterior.

Yeah just shoot off onna dem submarines we have laying around and dig up some aliens under the ice.

  On 11/30/2010 at 4:57 AM, ZiggomaticV17 said:

Maybe they will finally send a submarine to Europa. They think it might harvest life under its icey exterior.

If this happens in my lifetime, I will be so very, very happy.

I'm guessing they have found life-friendly conditions (eg liquid water) on a Jovian moon or an exoplanet. They've made announcements like this before, esp about Europa.

Just trying to keep the mainstream media interested with dumb oversimplifications so the govt can't spin doctor them as villains when it's time for budget cuts.

2010: The Year We Hold News Conference

lol

they have found a planet full of mucus sweating giraffe monkey slugs

this will undoubtedly be the most boring, non-event announcement ever.

I hope its not these feckers...

leave Richard alone!

some suggested they found lifeforms on titan, where they recently discovered small amounts of free oxygen.

Yeah, microbes in the shit that flew off Titan.

the most intriguing idea that i've heard that pertains to extra-terrestrial life is that many scientists think that living beings simply need to be in a liquidy substance (and heat) to form. so the methane oceans of titan are just as likely to harbor life as the water oceans of europa.

obviously it's impossible to test this theory because we'd need to find a bunch of living beings and figure out what they grew up in (water, methane, etc), but it creates a lot of possibilities.

Yeah, they found that organic compounds can be created in some atmospheres (ours, Titan's, etc.) where a sun can 'activate' it. At that point, all it would take are a few meteorites to bring it down to the planet to start some sort of microbial life.

  On 11/30/2010 at 2:57 PM, BCM said:

this will undoubtedly be the most boring, non-event announcement ever.

*lab-coat boner*

I was hoping it was something about Gliese