[url]http://kottke.org/10/11/has-nasa-discovered-extraterrestrial-life[/url]

[QUOTE]NASA will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 2, to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe.[/QUOTE]

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:Naughty:

All jokes aside, I am curious to find out what they reveal! Exciting!!!

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If you imagine that they find life in our frickin cosmic back yard, there's no doubt that the universe is littered with life.

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very interesting. Thanks for posting.

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oh cool! thanks for the heads up

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[QUOTE=Kamal;908499]If you imagine that they find life in our frickin cosmic back yard, there's no doubt that the universe is littered with life.[/QUOTE]

lol@ litter.

the milky way galaxy: a galactic waste bin

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lol @ we zee people

shit son, if we''d gotz the eyes refined enough - and duly attuned - to certain vibrations, we might see that each of us is shining like a sun: the electromagnetism we emanate. we are titans, noobs. truth be told; tis 'cos of are quasi-ignorant-blind, en-evolved optics; it'sa simple fact they're not unattuned to sense the infinitude of vibrations. our senses are imperfect; and prevents us from seeingz other existences' below, or higher than dense phyzikal matter. o.0

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[QUOTE=88Mariner;908522]the milky way galaxy: a galactic waste bin[/QUOTE]

[IMG]http://zewt.org/~glenn/chomp.gif[/IMG]

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[QUOTE=Kamal;908553][IMG]http://zewt.org/~glenn/chomp.gif[/IMG][/QUOTE]

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/AL3oZ.gif[/IMG]

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[QUOTE=i!!ustrious;908546]

we are titans, noobs. [/QUOTE]

:lol:

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[QUOTE=Kamal;908499]If you imagine that they find life in our frickin cosmic back yard, there's no doubt that the universe is littered with life.[/QUOTE]

could be so epic

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did anyone actually read this article [QUOTE] [B]Update:[/B] [URL="http://twitter.com/#!/alexismadrigal/status/9614997667717120"]According to Alexis Madrigal[/URL], the answer to the hyperbolic question in the headline is "no". [INDENT]I'm sad to quell some of the @kottke-induced excitement about possible extraterrestrial life. I've seen the Science paper. It's not that. [/INDENT][/QUOTE]

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read the article thoroughly; even probing nasa's whole scientific method/observation with regards to survey of titan.

but...

you must alwys remember....

"you wanna act like a star?! you better give me a star effort!"

[video=youtube;el5QXV-W5_g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el5QXV-W5_g[/video]

[video=youtube;zrUMn6RS2Uk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrUMn6RS2Uk[/video]

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well they found this near Saturn so I presume Alien's have been hiding out near Titan :p

[QUOTE=Kamal;907056]Nothing to do with Stars but an intriguing video I ran into today

[video=youtube;pGeWBiLVn8g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGeWBiLVn8g[/video][/QUOTE]

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i read about this, kinda exciting but @ the same time i wouldnt get all excited about it because if they did find life i,m sure that they would study it for years before announcing it but in saying that they would also need the funds to explore it more so this could just be their ticket

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[QUOTE=thebanned1;908622]i read about this, kinda exciting but @ the same time i wouldnt get all excited about it because if they did find life i,m sure that they would study it for years before announcing it but in saying that they would also need the funds to explore it more so this could just be their ticket[/QUOTE]

Perhaps they have been studying it for years :)

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mainstream news go slow on purpose

really old news except this (sort of) [QUOTE=i!!ustrious;908546]lol @ we zee people

shit son, if we''d gotz the eyes refined enough - and duly attuned - to certain vibrations, we might see that each of us is shining like a sun: the electromagnetism we emanate. we are titans, noobs. truth be told; tis 'cos of are quasi-ignorant-blind, en-evolved optics; it'sa simple fact they're not unattuned to sense the infinitude of vibrations. our senses are imperfect; and prevents us from seeingz other existences' below, or higher than dense phyzikal matter. o.0[/QUOTE]

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I'm more excited by a unified theory than bacteria found on some planet light years away

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[QUOTE]Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1726 [email]dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov[/email]

Cathy Weselby Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-2791 [email]cathy.weselby@nasa.gov[/email] Nov. 29, 2010

MEDIA ADVISORY : M10-167

NASA Sets News Conference on Astrobiology Discovery; Science Journal Has Embargoed Details Until 2 p.m. EST On Dec. 2

WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 2, to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe.

The news conference will be held at the NASA Headquarters auditorium at 300 E St. SW, in Washington. It will be broadcast live on NASA Television and streamed on the agency's website at [url]http://www.nasa.gov[/url].

Participants are:

• Mary Voytek, director, Astrobiology Program, NASA Headquarters, Washington 
  

• Felisa Wolfe-Simon, NASA astrobiology research fellow, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, Calif. 
  

• Pamela Conrad, astrobiologist, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 
  

• Steven Benner, distinguished fellow, Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, Gainesville, Fla. 
  

• James Elser, professor, Arizona State University, Tempe 
  

Media representatives may attend the conference or ask questions by phone or from participating NASA locations. To obtain dial-in information, journalists must send their name, affiliation and telephone number to Steve Cole at [email]stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov[/email] or call 202-358-0918 by noon Dec. 2.

For NASA TV streaming video and downlink information, visit:

[url]http://www.nasa.gov/ntv[/url]

For more information about NASA astrobiology activities, visit:

[url]http://astrobiology.nasa.gov[/url]

[/QUOTE]

from the nasa website

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[URL]http://www.eeggs.com/items/1256.html[/URL]

i never knew there were hiding in south park

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[QUOTE=matthew1471;908648]Perhaps they have been studying it for years :)[/QUOTE]

You're most likely right. Without running to google, iirc, Cassini has been around Saturn as early as 2006 when it originally deployed the Huygens Probe towards Titan.

[QUOTE=nikoa;908746]I'm more excited by a unified theory than bacteria found on some planet light years away[/QUOTE]

They probably did find a lot more than just bacteria because they believed there is liquid water several meters below the ice crust, where they believe much larger creatures could be living.

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If they are intelligent, they now think "Oh shit" because so far they were hiding.

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its all about the arsenic

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[B]NASA Finds New Life Form[/B]

                   [URL="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/12/nasa-finds-new-life/bacteria-wolfesimon3hr/"][IMG]http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2010/12/bacteria-wolfesimon3HR.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

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 [I]anything[/I] currently living in planet Earth. This changes everything. [U] [/U]At their [URL="http://gizmodo.com/5702124/did-nasa-discover-life-on-one-of-saturns-moons"]conference today[/URL], 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 [I]arsenic[/I]. 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. [I]Our[/I] 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 [I]don’t[/I] 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 [URL="http://gizmodo.com/5703835/the-probability-of-finding-aliens-is-now-three-times-higher"]the discovery of a massive number of red dwarf stars[/URL], which may harbor trillion of Earths.

[URL="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/12/nasa-finds-new-life/monolake-wolfesimon9hr/"][IMG]http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2010/12/monolake-wolfesimon9HR.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [I]Source: [[URL="http://nos.nl/artikel/202302-nieuw-soort-leven-ontdekt.html"]NOS[/URL]—In Dutch][/I]

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[QUOTE=floridaorange;909166] I don’t know about you but I’ve not been so excited about a bacteria since my STD tests came back clean. [/I][/QUOTE]

nice Florida. nice.

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^^ lol

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[QUOTE=Huggie Smiles;909169]

I don’t know about you but I’ve not been so excited about a bacteria since my STD tests came back clean. [/I]

nice Florida. nice.[/QUOTE]

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/BSDAU.gif[/IMG]

BTW, yesterday was "Worlds Aids Day."

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I for one welcome our arsenic-based interplanetary overlords.

hehehehehe - from here: [url]http://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/10368716743122944[/url]

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the fact that it's even a debate regarding life "out there" is silly to me, the universe is infinite as are the probabilities of other life forms, lol.. sure proof would be nice, but to think this one small insignificant planet is the only one with life on it is a pretty arrogant way to view the universe

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[QUOTE=Steve Graham;909711] but to think this one small insignificant planet is the only one with life on it is a pretty arrogant way to view the universe[/QUOTE]

I think everyone agreed on that in 1985. Finding it, and studying it is why we spend millions of dollars :lol: