Either way I welcome our new Alien Overlords
They developed a new petri dish with a lid that you can take off and put back easily while wearing clunky spacesuit gloves.
They ALL float down here. When you're down here with us, you'll float too!
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Another astronaut went crazy.
The Cassini-Huygens probe is still operating out by Saturn.
The moon really is made of cheese!?
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Swiss, pepper jack, or provolone? Because if it's swiss, then bleh. Cuz that stuff tastes like feet.
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Originally Posted by Starflier
The moon really is made of cheese!?
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Kepler space telescope found something highly interesting?
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Everyone knows it's either Wensleydale or Stilton.
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Originally Posted by Dark One
Swiss, pepper jack, or provolone? Because if it's swiss, then bleh. Cuz that stuff tastes like feet.
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I'll take a stab and say it has something to do with Enceladus or Titan.
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It's probably something they told us about 5-10 years ago, and are only now "confirming". I've stopped getting excited about NASA news confrences, as they're usually redundant and don't tell us anything new or exciting. In fact, they just had a recent news confrence about 3 weeks ago where they did the same thing.
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MSNBC comments on the subject.
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news...e-rumors-swirl
It's Thanos.
Crap.
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Water.
They go cuckoo for water.
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Originally Posted by Dark One
The Cassini-Huygens probe is still operating out by Saturn.
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Maybe we're about to redirect Cassini to clog up the alien death cannons...
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Looking forward to Thursday's announcement!, although when I think about it I think I held onto several newspapers for the longest time when the headlines read 'Life found on Mars !"... and then it was disproved a little so i binned them.
We better listen to Admiral Ackbar on this one. For I, too, think it's a tarp.
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I think it's water as well. Finding water where there wasn't supposed to be water is a really big thing for NASA, especially if it's still liquid.|
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Water.
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The wording of that press release is interesting, though. They're deliberately stepping around anything that could hint at any detail about the announcement.
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My guess is it's going to be something very mundane, and not about a discovery at all. Most likely announcements in my opinion are:
-- A new mission to search for life on... insert name of an extraterrestrial body here ...will be launched on... insert future date here.
-- A new telescope is being developed to replace the Hubbell, and this one will somehow be able to search for life.
-- A form of non-carbon based life has been found on earth (one of the panelists studies the possibility of arsenic-based life forms). Not that this one would be at all mundane.
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My guess is that it's not something they found on another world but something here on Earth that could further broaden our definition of life and widen the scope of conditions that might produce life.
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By the way, am I the only one thinking that the word "astrobiology" sounds pretty awesome?
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New findings indicate that despite prior postulations, there is no life on Earth.
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By the way, am I the only one thinking that the word "astrobiology" sounds pretty awesome?
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I don't know of any probes or anything that could be related to astrobiology that are active... So...
My prediction is they found...
...something on mars
...something with voyager (is that one that is furthest out right now?) unexpected
...something in a comet/meteorite
...organic chemicals that we already knew about somewhere?
...communicating aliens...doubt it, but its a possibility.