NASA Sets News Conference on Astrobiology Discovery

[troutman]

The pace of these new discoveries is astounding. We have three candidates for the NASA press conference on this page alone.

You have to think we will see evidence of extra-terrestial life in our generation.

[Traditional_Ale]

Originally Posted by troutman

You have to think we will see evidence of extra-terrestial life in our generation.

[photon]

If they're out there at all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

[Traditional_Ale]

Originally Posted by photon

If they're out there at all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

That is a freaking cool read. Thanks for that!

[T@T]

Originally Posted by HPLovecraft

Definitely that.

Not sure about definitely as that find was broadcast 4 months ago on "threw the wormhole". that's what I was referring too on page 1.

It's possible they have more info on the subject.

[Dan02]

Originally Posted by photon

If they're out there at all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

I'll go with a combo of 5.1.2 and 5.2.1.1

[troutman]

Originally Posted by photon

If they're out there at all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

ET life does not have to be intelligent. Our first discovery might be fossils, or microbes.

[I-Hate-Hulse]

Originally Posted by octothorp

My guess is that they're announcing that NASA has acquired Matian distribution rights for all Beatles recordings.

I wonder if they will describe it as "magical"?

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by photon

If they're out there at all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

That was a great read and pretty much sums up why I doubt we will ever contact intelligence life forms or alien civilizations... ever. I think it's a waste of time and money to even try. I am sure that life is all over the universe, but communicating with it or studying it is futile.

Not that I am entirely against the space program though, but I think it should be focused on things that can help humanity in the not so distant future and not just to satisfy vain curiousity.

[Table 5]

Originally Posted by T@T

Even CNN doesn't have a clue what this announcement is going to be, they seem surprised that there's been no leak.

The only way CNN would investigate is if Justin Bieber tweeted about it.

[photon]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

That was a great read and pretty much sums up why I doubt we will ever contact intelligence life forms or alien civilizations... ever. I think it's a waste of time and money to even try. I am sure that life is all over the universe, but communicating with it or studying it is futile.

Not that I am entirely against the space program though, but I think it should be focused on things that can help humanity in the not so distant future and not just to satisfy vain curiousity.

I still think it's worthwhile doing something. Two things I support is finding and examining all the planets we can find.. this could lead to discovery of even non-intelligent life elsewhere and also has other benefits to knowledge of the galaxy in general and improving models of solar system creation, etc..

SETI I'm also ok with, it's not a huge cost and if we're going to see evidence of other intelligent species that's as good a method as any.

I don't want a big portion of the budget to go to SETI type stuff, but some of it is ok I think; the potential payoff is so huge.

[FlameOn]

Rumor has it that NASA has found arsenic based life? I'll wait till the news conference before jumping to conclusions though.

If true this could the breakthrough that we've been looking for. Life other than carbon based can possibly exist.
http://gizmodo.com/5704158/nasa-finds-new-life

[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by Roast Beef

Could be this.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...e-planets.html

Originally Posted by FlameOn

Rumor has it that NASA has found arsenic based life? I'll wait till the news conference before jumping to conclusions though.

If true this could the breakthrough that we've been looking for. Life other than carbon based can possibly exist.
http://gizmodo.com/5704158/nasa-finds-new-life

Someone already mentioned that.
And it isn't Aresenic based, in the way that everything is carbon based, it's more that the bacteria lives in an aresenic rich environment, and uses aresenic like most otheres use phosphorous.

Interesting to say the least, and definitely a breakthrough in what we know about requirements for life, but not the kind of breakthrough you're talking about.

[FlameOn]

Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz

Someone already mentioned that.
And it isn't Aresenic based, in the way that everything is carbon based, it's more that the bacteria lives in an aresenic rich environment, and uses aresenic like most otheres use phosphorous.

Interesting to say the least, but not the kind of breakthrough you're talking about.

Misread the article... oops

[Thor]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

That was a great read and pretty much sums up why I doubt we will ever contact intelligence life forms or alien civilizations... ever. I think it's a waste of time and money to even try. I am sure that life is all over the universe, but communicating with it or studying it is futile.

Not that I am entirely against the space program though, but I think it should be focused on things that can help humanity in the not so distant future and not just to satisfy vain curiosity.

That's a very depressing viewpoint

[Fozzie_DeBear]

Based upon the bio of the Director who called the presser

http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/directo...6/mary/voytek/

I'm guessing they have found something interesting in a marine ecosystem...

[User Name]

arsenic based life forms!
http://gizmodo.com/5704158/nasa-find...yline=true&s=i

[troutman]

Originally Posted by FlameOn

Rumor has it that NASA has found arsenic based life? I'll wait till the news conference before jumping to conclusions though.

If true this could the breakthrough that we've been looking for. Life other than carbon based can possibly exist.
http://gizmodo.com/5704158/nasa-finds-new-life

Hours before their special news conference today, the cat is out of the bag: NASA has discovered a completely new life form that doesn't share the biological building blocks of anything currently living in planet Earth. This changes everything.

At their conference today, NASA scientist Felisa Wolfe Simon will announce that they have found a bacteria whose DNA is completely alien to what we know today. 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.

[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by User Name

arsenic based life forms!
http://gizmodo.com/5704158/nasa-find...yline=true&s=i

But why male models?

[3 Justin 3]

So this really does completely change how we look at how we were created. This is very exciting indeed.