UPDATE! NASA Discovers a NEW FORM OF LIFE!

Ahh, they always do this crap when they need more funding. "Follow the money trail.." as they say.

 

laughing for two days about all the talk of contact and such

most life on earth is microbial

you'd have to assume that most life on other planets is too . . .

we are extraordinarily lucky to exist at all

 

http://www.disinfo.com/2010/11/is-nasa-about-to-announce-the-discovery-of-extraterrestrial-life/

I wonder if the Skip comment on this page is our Skip.. haha...

 

Anybody planning on watching this today i suggest you make sure you have the right plugins to view nasa TV, particularly firefox users, im glad i just checked because i had to get a plugin, saves you fumbling around at the last minute and missing something.

 

Has anyone read Deception Point by Dan Brown?

 

The guy on CNN just said, "Life on other planets? We're not sure yet but NASA's got a big announcement."


Fucking media

 

the broadcast is only for NASA employees, WTF

 

dan brown the shitty novelist?

 

wait so what was the announcement? they found an amoeba in some pool?

 

Certainly very interesting and worth further investigation and research, but nowhere near as ground-breaking as all the media are trying to spin it as.
Being able to use a different group V element for metabolism and DNA is logical for life in that sort of environment, it's still doing fundamentally the same thing as all the other microbes though...

 

Yep....breaking news....

 

Scientists discover life on earth. More at 11.

 

It will be nice when we actually get out into the stars and start realizing how most of our theories about life and what it needs are tossed out the window.

Although some people may not grasp it, what this does is open up a whole new area of thought that was closed to mainstream before now.

I always found it funny that supposedly open minded scientists would say that life could only exist in a very narrow set of conditions that could only be found on earth. As each step along the way to realizing that it is only OUR form of life that needs these exacts requirements and many can exist in different forms in vary different conditions, instead of scrapping the idea, they just expand it a little to include the new info and deny anything else is possible.

 

Alert, Alert. Scientists find promethius and bob tapes.

 

i'm with you on this one

some people may not realize it but we are basically "pools" of "amoebas" that have specialized to work together and form a complex being

and the idea that one has such radically different biochemistry from every other known life form on earth is astonishing

probably back at the beginning there was even more diversity, and i'll bet everyone who studies microbes in volcanic or other extreme conditions is gonna be working extra hard for a while . . .