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Title: What is NASA's Secret Astrobiology Announcement?
Post by: cavegal on December 02, 2010, 11:48:19 AM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ac/20101201/sc_ac/7316534_what_is_nasas_secret_astrobiology_announcement;_ylt=AnCSlA4_CTAdDVwxCXIrUJKMwfIE;_ylu=X3oDMTRqdWIzNmdpBGFzc2V0Ay9zL2FjLzIwMTAxMjAxL3NjX2FjLzczMTY1MzRfd2hhdF9pc19uYXNhc19zZWNyZXRfYXN0cm9iaW9sb2d5X2Fubm91bmN

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Science fans across the Internet are eagerly awaiting an announcement from NASA's astrobiology team. All NASA will say about the press conference is that it will "discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life."

Evidence of Life on Mars?

While many are hoping that NASA will announce that extraterrestrial life has been discovered, this seems like a near impossibility.
:tinfoil: :scottie:
Title: Re: What is NASA's Secret Astrobiology Announcement?
Post by: ColonialMarine0431 on December 02, 2010, 12:36:28 PM
Maybe it's related to this? It came in my email this A.M.

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Atmosphere of Alien Super-Earth Revealed for First Time

The first-ever analysis of the atmosphere of an alien planet classified as a so-called "super-Earth" has revealed a distant world that is likely covered with either water vapor or a thick haze, scientists announced today (Dec. 1).

The exoplanet GJ 1214b, which orbits a star 40 light-years from Earth, offers astronomers a unique chance to study its atmosphere because it passes directly in front of its parent star from Earth's line of sight. That means that once an orbit, the star's light is filtered as it passes through the planet's atmosphere on its way to Earth, taking with it an imprint from the chemicals there.

MORE (http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/super-earth-exoplanet-atmosphere-101201.html)
Title: Re: What is NASA's Secret Astrobiology Announcement?
Post by: Thor on December 02, 2010, 01:15:32 PM
The big announcement as I heard was something about some bacteria in a California lake that lives off of arsenic. Big ****in' Deal..... ::) They should have discovered this decades ago..
Title: Re: What is NASA's Secret Astrobiology Announcement?
Post by: Texacon on December 02, 2010, 01:45:41 PM
Just mail some grapefruit juice to UGP then wait for the post! 

KC
Title: Re: What is NASA's Secret Astrobiology Announcement?
Post by: JohnnyReb on December 03, 2010, 07:57:29 AM
Quote from: Thor on December 02, 2010, 01:15:32 PM
The big announcement as I heard was something about some bacteria in a California lake that lives off of arsenic. Big ****in' Deal..... ::) They should have discovered this decades ago..

Bacteria that lives on poison....Hell, that ain't nothing, 200+ pound DUmmies thrive on poison.
Title: Re: What is NASA's Secret Astrobiology Announcement?
Post by: Celtic Rose on December 03, 2010, 10:37:29 AM
Quote from: Thor on December 02, 2010, 01:15:32 PM
The big announcement as I heard was something about some bacteria in a California lake that lives off of arsenic. Big ****in' Deal..... ::) They should have discovered this decades ago..

My brother was convinced that this was going to be some earth-shattering announcement.  My dad and I are giving him a hard time about it now  :-)  My dad even made up a fake press release for him "Breaking News:  Arsenic breathing little green men found in Mono Lake"  :lmao:

Suffice to say, my brother is not amused  :-)
Title: Re: What is NASA's Secret Astrobiology Announcement?
Post by: JohnnyReb on December 03, 2010, 06:29:04 PM
Quote from: Celtic Rose on December 03, 2010, 10:37:29 AM
My brother was convinced that this was going to be some earth-shattering announcement.  My dad and I are giving him a hard time about it now  :-)  My dad even made up a fake press release for him "Breaking News:  Arsenic breathing little green men found in Mono Lake"  :lmao:

Suffice to say, my brother is not amused  :-)
Friend thought they were going to show us a Roswell crash survivor.....we've finally "grown" enough we can stand it now.