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NASA Announcement Ignites the Web

First Posted: 12/02/10 02:56 AM ET   Updated: 05/25/11 07:15 PM ET

Nasa's Press Release has the web buzzing with speculation including a very well written piece by Jason Kottke.

Most the excitement about the press release is due to the vague nature of the press release and the incredibly interesting backgrounds of the researchers who are part of it.


The statement NASA released says:

NASA will hold a news conference at 11 a.m. PST on Thursday, Dec. 2, to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life

Phil Plaitt of Discovery has a great write up in which he says:

So this is most likely going to be something about conditions on another moon or planet conducive for life. Of course, the speculation is that NASA will announce the discovery for life. Maybe. I can't rule that out, but it seems really unlikely; I don't think they would announce it in this way.

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Nasa's Press Release has the web buzzing with speculation including a very well written piece by Jason Kottke. Most the excitement about the press release is due to the vague nature of the press r...
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Truth-Seeker
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02:55 PM on 12/02/2010
She sure was acting like she fully expected her Nobel Prize (i.e. channeling Sagan and explaining how 'great science - like hers' - comes about). From what the chemist had to say at the conference, though, all the proof is not yet in and it could prove to be a fairly unstable life form but time will tell. I don't think they completely varified that arsenic was actually present IN the DNA, or stably contained there, just located in greater concentration where the DNA is located, though it may well turn out to be in the DNA itself. I found the explanation of the chemist at the NASA conference actually more insightfull than the lead scientist's explanation and he still advised some caution.
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mccena
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02:13 PM on 12/02/2010
Although the journal has embargoed details of the discoveries secret until the conference, some writers and bloggers are speculating that this could be a discovery on Mars, which has been intense study by Rover since 2004. Others seem to think there will be an announcement regarding one of the moons of Saturn, Titan or Rhea either.
Nasa Announcement http://usspost.com/nasa-announcement-23318/
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rougebaisers
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09:33 AM on 12/02/2010
Oh they're here all right, and they are pretty damn good looking.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeQGxdbeUww
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savroD
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08:33 AM on 12/02/2010
To all intelligent alien life forms! We need you to clean up our mess and please EDUCATE some people, primarily those who don't understand science!

I'll accept brainwashing!

Maybe you can have a book called "To Serve Man"!
That might be fitting!As Rod says in the end of the episode.... "going from masters of all we survey to an ingrediant in someones soup"!
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oldgeek1
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06:41 AM on 12/02/2010
Science exploration is important, the search for life on other planets, not so much.

The Star Trek mentality is fun but we have life on this planet we are having difficult supporting from clean water to a lack of food. We have the water, atmosphere here and should be focused on sustaining our life here. Figure out how to support life in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and if you want to meet an Alien there is always Sarah Palin.
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PFHarlock
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03:58 AM on 12/02/2010
The folks here seem to have the inside scoop on the announcement:

http://nasawatch.com/archives/2010/12/life-as-we-know.html
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Cake or death.
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04:17 AM on 12/02/2010
Interesting; thanks.
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05:24 AM on 12/02/2010
Thanks PF.
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