chaosmachine Posted November 29, 2010 Share Posted November 29, 2010 "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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chassis Posted November 29, 2010 Share Posted November 29, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zazen Posted November 29, 2010 Share Posted November 29, 2010 Maybe they have discovered that Astrobiology is really hard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zazen Posted November 29, 2010 Share Posted November 29, 2010 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chassis Posted November 29, 2010 Share Posted November 29, 2010 Still exciting though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zazen Posted November 30, 2010 Share Posted November 30, 2010 I believe you are mistaken as to the potential excitingness of this. Nonetheless, and hypocritically, I remain slightly excited myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Fishtank Posted November 30, 2010 Share Posted November 30, 2010 "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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splesh Posted November 30, 2010 Share Posted November 30, 2010 Astrobiology is the future! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skotosa Posted November 30, 2010 Share Posted November 30, 2010 Maybe they will finally send a submarine to Europa. They think it might harvest life under its icey exterior. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capsaicin Posted November 30, 2010 Share Posted November 30, 2010 Yeah just shoot off onna dem submarines we have laying around and dig up some aliens under the ice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splesh Posted November 30, 2010 Share Posted November 30, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest analogue wings Posted November 30, 2010 Share Posted November 30, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baph Posted November 30, 2010 Share Posted November 30, 2010 2010: The Year We Hold News Conference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modey Posted November 30, 2010 Share Posted November 30, 2010 lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pennywise Posted November 30, 2010 Share Posted November 30, 2010 they have found a planet full of mucus sweating giraffe monkey slugs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCM Posted November 30, 2010 Share Posted November 30, 2010 this will undoubtedly be the most boring, non-event announcement ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Billov Posted November 30, 2010 Share Posted November 30, 2010 I hope its not these feckers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ranky Redlof Posted November 30, 2010 Share Posted November 30, 2010 leave Richard alone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plstik Posted November 30, 2010 Share Posted November 30, 2010 some suggested they found lifeforms on titan, where they recently discovered small amounts of free oxygen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gary C Posted November 30, 2010 Share Posted November 30, 2010 Yeah, microbes in the shit that flew off Titan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest theSun Posted November 30, 2010 Share Posted November 30, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mafted Posted November 30, 2010 Share Posted November 30, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MildewOnRice Posted November 30, 2010 Share Posted November 30, 2010 this will undoubtedly be the most boring, non-event announcement ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Benedict Cumberbatch Posted November 30, 2010 Share Posted November 30, 2010 *lab-coat boner* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chassis Posted November 30, 2010 Share Posted November 30, 2010 I was hoping it was something about Gliese Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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