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[Haasth]

Will "impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life".
My link

Don't disappoint me now NASA. *waits anxiously*

[Dei]

NASA: "Seriously people, stop making things up, no aliens as of yet."

[Crimsonum]

I'm finding aliens from our very planet.

[Berek-PG]

Just curious, but don't they have these conferences on a semi-regular basis?

[Bird of Prey]

They've been saying this moon and that comet may or may not support life for a while now.  Nothing special there.

[Dei]

Berek-PG, on 30 November 2010 - 07:04 PM, said:

Just curious, but don't they have these conferences on a semi-regular basis?

But rumor has it that they actually have something useful to say this time.

[Piglet]

Berek-PG, on 30 November 2010 - 07:04 PM, said:

Just curious, but don't they have these conferences on a semi-regular basis?

Yeah, this time it's about Rea, saturn's moon (It's funny, they usually anounce this breaking news thing, and then they have a press conference about it but they never say that before the press conference).

Rea has a 70% oxygen atmosphere, but don't be too happy yet. All of it is so thin that if you compressed it to normal earth atmosphere, it would probably fit right in the Petroglyph Games Studios.

[Valdez]

Well 70% is a vague number. People would say '70% of what total amount'...


'sides we all know that moons have thin atmospheres. Unless they're huge moons, like Titan.

[Piglet]

like i said, the whole atmosphere of Rea compressed to 1 atmospheric earth presure, then the entire atmosphere coudl easily fit into the petrobuilding, unliek earth's atmosphere which spans the entire planet, and is several kilometers thick.

[clue]

Does Rea have a magnetic field?

[Berek-PG]

Piglet, on 01 December 2010 - 04:57 AM, said:

like i said, the whole atmosphere of Rea compressed to 1 atmospheric earth presure, then the entire atmosphere coudl easily fit into the petrobuilding, unliek earth's atmosphere which spans the entire planet, and is several kilometers thick.

I'm not so sure... we have these portals that reach through to various netherworlds we need to visit on occasion... plus our building has moveable rooms. Makes it a bit of a mess here at times...

[Piglet]

okay then, let's say Independence Hall then instead of PG studios.

and the news wasn't about Rea. It was about a monster like critter that instead of having fosfor as one of it's building blocks in its DNA (like all the other species on earth, including us) has Arsenic. Whooptiefuckingdoo!

So they found a creature on earth athat scientists always thought would be able to exist on other planets. So this is their proof we are not alone >.>

[Dei]

Piglet, on 02 December 2010 - 05:36 AM, said:

okay then, let's say Independence Hall then instead of PG studios.

and the news wasn't about Rea. It was about a monster like critter that instead of having fosfor as one of it's building blocks in its DNA (like all the other species on earth, including us) has Arsenic. Whooptiefuckingdoo!

So they found a creature on earth athat scientists always thought would be able to exist on other planets. So this is their proof we are not alone >.>

You seriously expected them to go all, "Yeah, aliens, yeah with flying saucers, yeah. Totally existing"? I doubt it'd be presented in such a casual conference if that was the case.

[Piglet]

No but it's like with the water o nthe moo nthing. They were always like: There is water on the moon.

Then after a few decades they finally decided to launch a probe, crash it into the moon, and then have this pre-anouncement of an anouncement that will shake the foundations of how we think about space, because there WAS WATER ON THE MOON EVEN THOUGH WE KNEW!

So we found another extremophile, and this one is SLIGHTLY different because it has a different atom in it's DNA sequence than us. This was already widely known for years to be possible, now they find one and it's ZOMG BIEG NEIWSZ!

[Haasth]

Quote

WASHINGTON -- 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.

It's right now 11:30 a.m EST, Dec 2nd. Meaning the conference hasn't happened yet, so where do you get that information from Piglet?

Edited by Haasth, 02 December 2010 - 11:32 AM.

[Crimsonum]

Even if that was the news, its still pretty interesting in my opinion. I'm always fascinated to see new "alien" lifeforms, even if they are found from our planet. It gives ideas for science fiction. Remember, the depths of the oceans remain largely unexplored.

Edited by Crimsonum, 02 December 2010 - 12:59 PM.

[HissingNewt]

http://arstechnica.c...nd-proteins.ars

That's a good article on it. I think they may have published that paper already and that's why people know.

[Gorays]

Here's an interesting artilce posted by yahoo just today(star count may triple).

http://news.yahoo.co...ci_starry_night

Edited by Gorays, 02 December 2010 - 03:18 PM.

[Haasth]

Kotaku has the added press conference.

I can understand that quite a few people are disappointed, but I still think it's pretty interesting. Considering that no other life form we had known thus far used arsenic - which is even poisonous to pretty much everything else - this is quite an interesting find.

Surely not as amazing and shocking as finding intelligent life or even animals of sorts, but it's a nice start no?

[Dei]

Well, this conference in a nutshell is basically,

NASA wasn't thinking outside of the box