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Originally Posted by Daradon
Re Big News from Curiosity: Yeah as I read that article I kinda got the same feeling. It might be huge for the scientific community and extremely important for them and the process, but I get the feeling it wouldn't be the sort of thing that would make the world sit up and take notice. Not at least with the things our world seems to be more concerned about. :/ Exciting for a scientist is very different than the average joe, rightly or wrongly.
I doubt it's going to be something like evidence of (former) life or anything like that.
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Somewhat true, but say they came out and said Curiosity has found nucleic acids(or any building block of life) in it's samples,99% of people probably wouldn't blink an eye but because of electronic media today just about everyone would know it means Mars once had life within 24 hours.
For the record I doubt very much they found something of that ilk but since they already found traces of oxygen, carbon monoxide, methane and water I'm extremely interested what they found that's so exciting to scientists.