NASA to hold a news conference

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<div class="IPBDescription">On astrobiology discovery</div><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/nov/HQ_M10-167_Astrobiology.html" target="_blank">NASA Sets News Conference on Astrobiology Discovery</a>. Tomorrow, December 2nd.

What do you think it'll be? Is it Greys on Mars? Reptiles on the Moon? A race of sexy all-female humanoids on Gliese 581 G?

I for one believe it's going to be a huge dissapointment for most. My money's on "we found something that's kinda strange" or "we're launching a new probe".
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  • RobRob Unknown Enemy Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 25Members, NS1 Playtester
    It will be an admission that extra terrestrials have been among us for millennia, have altered the course of humanity, and have in fact started life on this planet in the first place. But of course, we already know that so this is really just embarrassing for NASA. NASA has just been downhill since it faked the moon landings...
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  • lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
    The only rumour I've heard is about life on Titan, which sounds very implausible to me. Not the idea of life on Titan itself, the place apparently has liquid surface water, and there could be microbes around volcanic deep-sea vents. But how the hell would NASA know that in the first place? It's not like they've had a whole lot of equipment swing by Saturn, and microbes are pretty damn small.
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  • SopsSops Join Date: 2003-07-03 Member: 17894Members, Constellation
    I recall watching something on TV about (liquid methane?) oceans under a layer of ice on Titan and that NASA was building a probe to land on Titan and drill into the ice.

    Don't know what the time table was for that though.
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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    It's going to be a plug for the <i>Cowboys vs. Aliens</i> movie in production.
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  • MonkfishMonkfish Sonic-boom-inducing buttcheeks of terrifying speed&#33; Join Date: 2003-06-03 Member: 16972Members
    Titan doesn't have liquid water on the surface. It's liquid methane.
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  • ThaldarinThaldarin Alonzi&#33; Join Date: 2003-07-15 Member: 18173Members, Constellation
    I read something in a newspaper about microbes living and growing in Arsenic in some lake, possibly in California which interested them.
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  • X_StickmanX_Stickman Not good enough for a custom title. Join Date: 2003-04-15 Member: 15533Members, Constellation
    It's just going to be a team of scientists standing on stage saying "UFOs don't exist. Seriously, you guys. Seriously."

    Then the rest of the 2+ conference will be the scientists staring with disapproval at the crowd.
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  • RobRob Unknown Enemy Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 25Members, NS1 Playtester
    <!--quoteo(post=1812270:date=Dec 1 2010, 03:18 PM:name=X_Stickman)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (X_Stickman @ Dec 1 2010, 03:18 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1812270"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->It's just going to be a team of scientists standing on stage saying "UFOs don't exist. Seriously, you guys. Seriously."

    Then the rest of the 2+ conference will be the scientists staring with disapproval at the crowd.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Because we know they know. And they know we know they know. And this game of lies is getting old and the crowd won't stand for it anymore! FREE ELVIS! LET HIM GO HOME!
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  • SopsSops Join Date: 2003-07-03 Member: 17894Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1812269:date=Dec 1 2010, 02:14 PM:name=Thaldarin)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Thaldarin @ Dec 1 2010, 02:14 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1812269"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I read something in a newspaper about microbes living and growing in Arsenic in some lake, possibly in California which interested them.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Sure hope they are not calling a news conference to say they found live in a lake.
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  • ThaldarinThaldarin Alonzi&#33; Join Date: 2003-07-15 Member: 18173Members, Constellation
    I dunno, there's a few internet sources to back up the peon tabloids over here:

    <a href="http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread635594/pg1" target="_blank">http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread635594/pg1</a>

    <a href="http://slyoyster.com/newsandpolitics/2010/about-nasas-press-conference-thursday/" target="_blank">http://slyoyster.com/newsandpolitics/2010/...rence-thursday/</a>

    <a href="http://skymania.com/wp/2010/11/alien-life-form-is-here-on-earth.html" target="_blank">http://skymania.com/wp/2010/11/alien-life-...e-on-earth.html</a>

    And this was reported by the BBC in 2009 aswell here: <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7893414.stm" target="_blank">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7893414.stm</a>
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  • AlignAlign Remain Calm Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 5216Forum Moderators, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1812256:date=Dec 1 2010, 06:01 PM:name=Sops)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Sops @ Dec 1 2010, 06:01 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1812256"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I recall watching something on TV about (liquid methane?) oceans under a layer of ice on Titan and that NASA was building a probe to land on Titan and drill into the ice.

    Don't know what the time table was for that though.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I think you're confusing it with Europe, the ice moon?

    Anyway, it's going to be about Titan and why there's not enough of... some element, I forget what... on the surface compared to the atmosphere. As in, there should be tons, but there's hardly any - which implies microbial life or some unknown catalyst, both of which are interesting.
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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1812275:date=Dec 1 2010, 02:41 PM:name=Sops)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Sops @ Dec 1 2010, 02:41 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1812275"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Sure hope they are not calling a news conference to say they found live in a lake.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    The lakes are of a chemical composition that resembles possible places we might find life off-world. If life can grow in the lake then possibly it can grow in other places like the lake.
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  • SopsSops Join Date: 2003-07-03 Member: 17894Members, Constellation
    There are a number of inhospitable places around the world that scientists were surprised to find life, and they always say, if life can grow here maybe it can grow somewhere else in the solar system.

    It is nothing new and it hardly seems like news worthy of calling a press conference.
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  • AlignAlign Remain Calm Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 5216Forum Moderators, Constellation
    I'd think actually finding it is a pretty big leap from "it sounds reasonable".
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  • InsaneInsane Anomaly Join Date: 2002-05-13 Member: 605Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, NS2 Developer, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, NS2 Map Tester, Subnautica Developer, Pistachionauts, Future Perfect Developer
    Finding life somewhere very like places elsewhere in the solar system is much more relevant than simply knowing life thrives in extreme conditions. It means you have an extraterrestrial environment in which you know life is capable of getting by.
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  • ThaldarinThaldarin Alonzi&#33; Join Date: 2003-07-15 Member: 18173Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1812289:date=Dec 1 2010, 09:30 PM:name=Align)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Align @ Dec 1 2010, 09:30 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1812289"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I think you're confusing it with Europe, the ice moon?

    Anyway, it's going to be about Titan and why there's not enough of... some element, I forget what... on the surface compared to the atmosphere. As in, there should be tons, but there's hardly any - which implies microbial life or some unknown catalyst, both of which are interesting.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    I think it's hydrogen, not sure, but seems to make sense knowing how life created on Earth and current existing levels of hydrogen on Earth now and how it forms with many other elements easily.
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  • InsaneInsane Anomaly Join Date: 2002-05-13 Member: 605Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, NS2 Developer, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, NS2 Map Tester, Subnautica Developer, Pistachionauts, Future Perfect Developer
    edited December 2010
    Yeah, it's hydrogen. The logic is that, given the chemistry on Titan's surface, any life forms may well consume hydrogen in the same way we do oxygen.

    EDIT: Those findings were already <a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/06/07/has-life-on-titan-been-discovered-no/" target="_blank">discussed</a> earlier this year, however.
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  • lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
    By the way, Jupiter's ice moon is called Europa. Europe is the continent. Yes, I know I'm picking nits.
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  • ThaldarinThaldarin Alonzi&#33; Join Date: 2003-07-15 Member: 18173Members, Constellation
    edited December 2010
    Ice moon? You mean a moon covered by ice and possibly water!

    (Nits picked more!)
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  • lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
    Egads! Hoisted by my own petard!
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  • AlignAlign Remain Calm Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 5216Forum Moderators, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1812338:date=Dec 2 2010, 02:47 AM:name=lolfighter)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (lolfighter @ Dec 2 2010, 02:47 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1812338"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->By the way, Jupiter's ice moon is called Europa. Europe is the continent. Yes, I know I'm picking nits.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Really? Huh. It's Europa for both in Swedish, so I figured... yeah.
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  • SopsSops Join Date: 2003-07-03 Member: 17894Members, Constellation
    edited December 2010
    Nope, meant Titan and I meant methane.

    Seems the theory of large oceans did not pan out but there are some very large lakes.

    <a href="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070313_titan_lakes.html" target="_blank">http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/0703...itan_lakes.html</a>
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  • AlignAlign Remain Calm Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 5216Forum Moderators, Constellation
    At any rate, I was wrong:
    <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5704158/nasa-finds-new-life" target="_blank">http://gizmodo.com/5704158/nasa-finds-new-life</a>
    <!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Instead of using phosphorus, the bacteria uses arsenic. All life on Earth is made of six components: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur. Every being, from the smallest amoeba to the largest whale, share the same life stream. Our DNA blocks are all the same.

    But not this one. This one is completely different. Discovered in the poisonous Mono Lake, California, this bacteria is made of arsenic, something that was thought to be completely impossible. While she and other scientists theorized that this could be possible, this is the first discovery. The implications of this discovery are enormous to our understanding of life itself and the possibility of finding beings in other planets that don't have to be like planet Earth.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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  • ThaldarinThaldarin Alonzi&#33; Join Date: 2003-07-15 Member: 18173Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1812300:date=Dec 1 2010, 10:22 PM:name=Sops)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Sops @ Dec 1 2010, 10:22 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1812300"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->There are a number of inhospitable places around the world that scientists were surprised to find life, and they always say, if life can grow here maybe it can grow somewhere else in the solar system.

    It is nothing new and it hardly seems like news worthy of calling a press conference.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Apparently you were wrong.
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  • SopsSops Join Date: 2003-07-03 Member: 17894Members, Constellation
    How do you figure?

    What I said was true given the information you provided, and we still do not know what the press conferences was called for.
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  • lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1812525:date=Dec 2 2010, 07:28 PM:name=Align)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Align @ Dec 2 2010, 07:28 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1812525"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--><a href="http://gizmodo.com/5704158/nasa-finds-new-life" target="_blank">http://gizmodo.com/5704158/nasa-finds-new-life</a><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Yeah, we do.
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  • RobRob Unknown Enemy Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 25Members, NS1 Playtester
    Some discussion is going on about this: <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html</a>
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  • RetalesRetales Panigg cultist Join Date: 2003-08-07 Member: 19180Members
    No wonder the aliens are so fond of anal probing, since their DNA contains...
    *sunglasses* B|
    ARSEnic
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  • RobRob Unknown Enemy Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 25Members, NS1 Playtester
    YEAAAAHHH
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    <!--quoteo(post=1812591:date=Dec 2 2010, 10:18 PM:name=Retales)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Retales @ Dec 2 2010, 10:18 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1812591"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->No wonder the aliens are so fond of anal probing, since their DNA contains...
    *sunglasses* B|
    ARSEnic<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->


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