http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/nov/HQ_M10-167_Astrobiology.html

Not really, but I'm interested to hear what they have to say.

11/30/2010 12:46:12 AM

that makes one of us

11/30/2010 12:47:08 AM

false advertising ITT

but I would like to see what they have to say, could be interesting

11/30/2010 12:47:19 AM

11/30/2010 1:25:20 AM

jizz in my pants

11/30/2010 1:27:09 AM

I think that is very cool and I wish I could watch the news conference but I guess I'll have to wait until after I get off work.

11/30/2010 9:00:21 AM

Interesting I wonder what will be said

11/30/2010 9:01:55 AM

I'll let you know if I hear anything.

11/30/2010 10:58:33 AM

if you add Astro- to any career/job title, it sounds so much more prestigious.

11/30/2010 11:02:30 AM

Astroprostitute

hey you're right!

11/30/2010 11:07:56 AM

Quote :

" an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life"

no aliens

11/30/2010 11:15:09 AM

That costume never made any sense.

If he's illegal, why does he have a green card?

11/30/2010 11:23:28 AM

AstroEnglish Major.

AstroBook Writer.

AstroTurf.

AstroManager.

AstroGroundskeeper.


Honestly, I'm only finding mild success here.

11/30/2010 11:42:47 AM

So my roommate was telling me that someone she knows said that in December some whacky shit is going to be going down with the government. Apparently they are going to have to admit to us they have known about intelligent alien life forms for years or something.

We laughed at what was said.

12/1/2010 12:25:42 AM

^ you should still be laughing.

12/1/2010 12:27:11 AM

Well it was getting close to my bedtime so I had to retire to my room.

12/1/2010 12:29:13 AM

AstroWhore

I kinda like that one actually.

If I was a conductor I'd be a AstroMaestro

or a pastor.... AstroPastor.....

12/1/2010 12:45:52 AM

It's going to be super vague assumption based upon data that will be seen as very ambiguous. I bet it'll be something along the lines of 'We detected that the hydrogen content of Titan has been decreased and have determined that there possibly some form of life that is consuming it' or something about Rhea.

12/1/2010 12:55:02 AM

^AstroPessimist

12/1/2010 12:57:25 AM

Or maybe they have developed something to get into the water on Europa

12/1/2010 9:47:03 AM

^
Right. It's not going to be anything about alien lifeforms or possible alien lifeforms. They've already stated it's just an advancement in their search methods.

12/1/2010 9:58:57 AM

bttttt

12/2/2010 8:17:36 AM

going to announce a decrease in efforts due to dat low $$$

I'm AstralAdvent and i approved this message.

12/2/2010 8:19:24 AM

12/2/2010 8:56:51 AM

12/2/2010 10:52:59 AM

Countdown to 2pm...

12/2/2010 11:37:22 AM

Still pre-press conference, but some info is coming out:

http://gizmodo.com/5704158/nasa-finds-new-life

Quote :

"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. No details have been disclosed about the origin or nature of this new life form. We will know more today at 2pm EST but, while this life hasn't been found in another planet, this discovery does indeed change everything we know about biology. I don't know about you but I've not been so excited about a bacteria since my STD tests came back clean. And that's without counting yesterday's announcement on the discovery of a massive number of red dwarf stars, which may harbor trillion of Earths."

12/2/2010 11:39:29 AM

news is already out

bacteria with arsenic-based DNA

[Edited on December 2, 2010 at 11:39 AM. Reason : ^ thx u lol]

12/2/2010 11:39:43 AM

Weren't the aliens in Evolution arsenic-based? And allergic to shampoo or something?

Also I always thought the search for Earth-like planets because they're the only ones likely to sustain life seemed a little silly.

12/2/2010 11:42:34 AM

so bio and chem majors need to destroy their degree.

12/2/2010 11:43:53 AM

http://gizmodo.com/5704158/nasa-finds-new-life

Ah shit, [old]

[Edited on December 2, 2010 at 11:45 AM. Reason : .]

12/2/2010 11:45:30 AM

This is some pretty fucking awesome news

12/2/2010 11:48:50 AM

So when do I get to fuck a green chick?

12/2/2010 11:59:28 AM

^ how the fuck do you pronounce your name?

12/2/2010 12:15:27 PM

NASA press conference on the find going on now:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

12/2/2010 2:10:29 PM

that lady is super intense

anyways its terrestrial so don't get SUPER excited.

yay bill nye the science guy on cnn lol

[Edited on December 2, 2010 at 2:13 PM. Reason : .]

12/2/2010 2:12:42 PM

Quote :

"anyways its terrestrial so don't get SUPER excited."

It's still an amazing find...the discovery goes against some pretty basic assumptions within biology.

12/2/2010 2:13:39 PM

well obviously

12/2/2010 2:14:27 PM

so how is it alien if its from earth. Now its an amazing discovery but it just means there is a lot of things that need to still be discovered here on earth.

That being said I still wouldn't be surprised if aliens are out there.

12/2/2010 2:14:42 PM

The big question on my mind is if the lady talking about the discovery has ever been laid.

Watching her talk about the discovery made me want to punt a small child.

12/2/2010 2:17:41 PM

The tenant that life itself is built upon phosphorous has now been undermined...I liked the ASU professor's statement that he's been studying phosphorous his entire career, and teaching scores of students that it's the backbone of life, and that now he's at least partially incorrect.

12/2/2010 2:17:45 PM

Quote :

"The big question on my mind is if the lady talking about the discovery has ever been laid. Watching her talk about the discovery made me want to punt a small child."

Agreed...she seemed like she had just come down from on high to break down this news in the most simple form possible for the masses.

12/2/2010 2:18:48 PM

Quote :

"Every being, from the smallest amoeba to the largest whale, share the same life stream. Our DNA blocks are all the same."

Apparently you're fucking wrong.

12/2/2010 2:19:13 PM

^^^ yea that pretty freaking cool.

that lady was ridic though. watching her made me feel like i was on drugs haha.

[Edited on December 2, 2010 at 2:20 PM. Reason : .]

12/2/2010 2:20:38 PM

I am listening to this at work and I have to say I am SUPER Excited about this discover. Crazy. My nerd is coming out.

12/2/2010 2:24:53 PM

I had to cut it off when they came back to that first woman.

12/2/2010 2:27:47 PM

^^ it is really neat.

now we are watching UFO sightings on the science HD channel ahahaha.

i want to be agent scully

^ the crazy fellowship one that acted like she was talking to preschoolers?

[Edited on December 2, 2010 at 2:28 PM. Reason : .]

12/2/2010 2:28:11 PM

"What is possible?"


Everything is possible. We live in an Alice in Wonderland world

12/2/2010 2:30:47 PM

ah ha i knew 'not really' was coming

12/2/2010 2:33:18 PM

The curly haired girl is on some fucking drugs.

12/2/2010 2:37:26 PM