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[Mallissin]

More details Thursday!

http://www.nasa.gov/...trobiology.html

[Acturas]

Now we just need to find the Pluto relay......

[Mallissin]

Charon you mean?



Maybe that's the Pioneer anomalies!



(lolz)

[marbatico]

argh, dammit! they found my spaceship!

[Khayness]

They have faked some evidence so the media will be busy while the US gets some crap past the radar.

[Stanley Woo]

Andrew Gauthier here at the office theorizes that NASA has found a shoggoth.

[Mallissin]

Sheesh, you guys and Cthulhu.



I can't wait until you have a "Win a tour of Bioware's offices" as a prize for the next contest, but the winners are never seen again.

[Ponce de Leon]

Stanley Woo wrote...

Andrew Gauthier here at the office theorizes that NASA has found a shoggoth.

I read that as "Shotgun"... I am a bit too tired at this hour in the morning... ehhh 

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

Its a TRAP!

[ObserverStatus]

Stanley Woo wrote...

Andrew Gauthier here at the office theorizes that NASA has found a shoggoth.

That wouldn't be too hard.  Guillermo del Toro is probably building shoggoths for his movie as we speak.

[ObserverStatus]

If they've got an alien, it's most likely a prokaryote , but if it's a krogan, than i'm not complaining.

[Sable Phoenix]

If they'd found something really important, we'd never know about it. It would be squirreled away in some vault and then released to us in a few years as the next generation of technological advancement, like the transistor.  Remember what NASA stands for.

"Never A Straight Answer"

Modifié par Sable Phoenix, 01 décembre 2010 - 10:15 .

[HiddenKING]

It's a publicity stunt for Mass Effect 3

[marbatico]

Sable Phoenix wrote...

If they'd found something really important, we'd never know about it. It would be squirreled away in some vault and then released to us in a few years as the next generation of technological advancement, like the transistor.  Remember what NASA stands for.

"Never A Straight Answer"

perhaps they found something really important a few years back?

[JRCHOharry]

"We're happy to confirm that we pressed a few buttons here and there and found a crevice on mars that might or might not have water"

[Khayness]

JRCHOharry wrote...

"We're happy to confirm that we pressed a few buttons here and there and found a crevice on mars that might or might not have water"

Well yeah, what is ground breakingly significant to a scientist?

They might proven a new equation for finding Earth-like planets, that's important. To common folks like me, Independence Day-esque scenario is important.

I blame Hollywood.

[Mallissin]

marbatico wrote...

Sable Phoenix wrote...

If they'd found something really important, we'd never know about it. It would be squirreled away in some vault and then released to us in a few years as the next generation of technological advancement, like the transistor.  Remember what NASA stands for.

"Never A Straight Answer"

perhaps they found something really important a few years back?

And it grew over the years, escaped the vault and convinced a researcher to write a story about it.

I can't wait for the Wikileaks on it.

[deleted]

Maybe they found a meteorite heading towards us. Now THAT will impact our search for alien life.

[Khayness]

Food for your thoughts.

We probably won't be gunning down vulcan explorers and estabilishing a space empire with stolen technology.

Shame.

[Kimosabe]

Today ESO revealed that they have discovered steam or dense clouding on the 'superearth' planet GJ1214b: http://www.eso.org/p...c/news/eso1047/ maybe it has something to do with this?

[Swordfishtrombone]

Kimosabe0 wrote...

Today ESO revealed that they have discovered steam or dense clouding on the 'superearth' planet GJ1214b: http://www.eso.org/p...c/news/eso1047/ maybe it has something to do with this?

Very unlikely - we're quite a ways from being able to identify any difinitive signs of life on a planet outside our solar system. Even in our own solar system such detection is difficult enough. The most exciting possibility that I might be somewhat realistic is that they've found some sort of microbial life-like processes, or chemical telltales of such, in soil samples from Mars.

That would be awesome, as it would be extremely strong evidence in favor of life being pretty much ubigutous in the universe. It would also be fascinating if they could isolate and examine the structures of any molecules involved in making martian living things, so as to see how they compare to Earthly life. As it stands, we've got only one example of life, as all Earthly life shares common origins. Life that emereged independently elsewhere would be a revolutionary find. Would it use Carbon based chemistry? RNA or some closely similar molecule?

I'm really hoping that this is the case.

Another real possibility is that they'll just announce that they've found chemical telltale signs in the atmosphere of some planetary body that show the likely presense of life-like chemical processes. Less exiting, but still cool.

[marbatico]

Kimosabe0 wrote...

Today ESO revealed that they have discovered steam or dense clouding on the 'superearth' planet GJ1214b: http://www.eso.org/p...c/news/eso1047/ maybe it has something to do with this?

could be it, i heard of a theorie somewhere that, if the mist on a planet is dense enough, light water animals could ''swim'' through it.
anyway, the only thing we know for sure is needed for life is water and the right temperatures. (light was excluded when we found life on the bottom of the see were no sunlight can go)