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Closed AccountNov 30, 2010
I hope so! I really would like for it to happen in my generation. Space elevator probably wont nor will truely commercial space flights, so ET it is!
hipmanNov 30, 2010
No.....
smokezzNov 30, 2010
Awww, did you church tell you it's not possible?
norman619Nov 30, 2010
OK... how did you get that from a one word comment?
norman619Nov 30, 2010
They may find the byproducts of life as we know it but I hardly think they will find life. Not yet anyway.
davidtcNov 30, 2010
If it is about life, I wonder if they would announce it if it was an intelligent form, not just a couple cells producing some gas.
Closed AccountNov 30, 2010
If the intelligent life that exists outside out planet were close enough for NASA to know about it, they would either let us know before NASA, or they wouldn't let NASA know.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
esquareNov 30, 2010
Hate to disappoint y'all. But it simply is about bacteria that live on arsenic (to be published online by the journal Science, at the Science Express website, next Thursday).
norman619Nov 30, 2010
Bacteria are EARTH organisms. Alien microbe maybe. Life on another planet would not be quite like what WE are used to.
esquareNov 30, 2010
This hype IS about EARTH organisms. It is simply about newly discovered micro-organisms that are quite different from others. (Which could have astrobiological implications, but that's about it.)
norman619Nov 30, 2010
What does it matter?
ryan850Nov 30, 2010
Why wouldn't they?
Closed AccountNov 30, 2010
If you are replying to me it is because if they were intelligent enough to be close enough to the earth to be seen by NASA, then they would be advanced enough to NOT be seen unless they wanted to. and if they wanted to, they wouldn't let their existence been revealed by outsiders.
warpfieldNov 30, 2010
An alien lands on Earth and tells the UN that he has good and bad news.
"The good news is, we welcome new species to explore and inhabit space with us all the time. The bad news is, we use technologies which -- like antimatter -- are way powerful, so only truly moral species qualify. We figure if you start now, you may be allowed offworld in a few thousand years. Right now, in your current state, oh man oh man -- we'd have to be totally f---king out of our minds to let you anywhere near another planet. Later, douchetards!" :)
Closed AccountNov 30, 2010
douchtards? So aliens have the maturity level of a junior high school social outcast?
warpfieldNov 30, 2010
It's reverse psychology. They know it'll piss us off and motivate us even more to get our s**t together. :)
Either that, or he waits a moment, stops laughing and says "Sorry, I just wanted to see the expression on your faces. Freak you out, behave totally different than what you expected. Hey, come on, just because we're morally superior doesn't mean we don't have a sense of humor. And besides, we don't let anyone offworld unless they can take a joke too." :)
norman619Nov 30, 2010
Then they really don't understand human nature at all.
hipmanNov 30, 2010
funny....it'd probably play out just a little differently, of course....
norman619Nov 30, 2010
I find it funny that people seem to think an Intelligent race would give a s**t what we are doing way the f**k out here. If they cam here it'd be because there's something on our planet they want and they wouldn't stop to chat with the local animals. They'd simply take what they wanted and move on.
biglouNov 30, 2010
Just like on Pandora!!!!
norman619Nov 30, 2010
No. They actually spoke tot he inhabitants. Avatar was simply a retelling of what happened between the settlers and the native Americans. An encounter with a real alien civ capable of coming here would be FAR more one sided. We'd be little more than a nuisance.
hamburglar26Nov 30, 2010
we thought the same thing about Iraq
ryan850Nov 30, 2010
By that rationale you assume that we humans wouldn't care what an alien species is up to in their part of the universe. I think most humans are very much interested in what they would be up to.
zearthNov 30, 2010
I want to here some GANTZ stories in NASA :D
gregoryfentonNov 30, 2010
I for one welcome our microbial overlords.
Can I be your Overseer General for the Hawaiian and Australian territories? I have my own surf shorts and am willing to learn to speak Martian Microbian.
chaos7Nov 30, 2010
why would they wait to announce it....shouldn't it be breaking news? LIFE FOUND OUTSIDE EARTH!!
norman619Nov 30, 2010
Everything needs to be a production. Haven't you learned anything yet?
ryan850Nov 30, 2010
Because they haven't found life outside of earth.
agmlauncherNov 30, 2010
Finding implicit evidence for life and finding explicit proof of life are different things. We already have loads of implicit evidence, what we need is explicit proof.
fdiskNov 30, 2010
Anything to take your mind of Wikileaks.
norman619Nov 30, 2010
Like that last "leak" was anything special. C'mon now...
circuitbloodNov 30, 2010
Nope, I don't think so. NASA said it will just impact the "search".
freakazoidzaNov 30, 2010
as in end it.
norman619Nov 30, 2010
We wouldn't know how to recognize real alien life.
ssbarNov 30, 2010
I doubt it! :)
guillauweNov 30, 2010
I will follow Nasa's news!
greatturningNov 30, 2010
With a headline like that how'm I supposed to sleep til Dec. 2nd?
ryan850Nov 30, 2010
Don't worry, they didn't find life on another planet, just another way life can exist which will broaden the search further to areas once thought uninhabitable.... you can get some sleep now.
minnullNov 30, 2010
Jesus does not approve.
hydroplaneNov 30, 2010
We r teh ali3ns
wcarverNov 30, 2010
If life has been found (although I kind of doubt it) it will be interesting what kind of life coding chemistry is involved. If it is DNA/RNA it will be astounding. OTOH, if it's not DNA/RNA it would be even more astounding.
goldforcashNov 30, 2010
its that damn saturn hexagon!
ahurtt1Nov 30, 2010
I'll save you the trouble. Cliffs: The answer is no.
veganvultureNov 30, 2010
If they've found life, I have a religious freak at work whose face I'd like to shove this in. Also watch for the Catholic church to probably make some kind of statement as to why life on Earth is still special in God's eyes.
pw378Dec 1, 2010
Wow, a vegan who bashes people for their beliefs. Who'd have expected that. Especially considering how logical vegan beliefs are. </s>
veganvultureDec 2, 2010
Yeah, not really a vegan. You put the moron in oxymoron (my username).
doonceNov 30, 2010
FTA:
Update: According to Alexis Madrigal, the answer to the hyperbolic question in the headline is "no".
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.
freakazoidzaNov 30, 2010
And who is Alexis Madrigal ? and why should we care what she says?
musictechgeekNov 30, 2010
"Alexis Madrigal is a senior editor for TheAtlantic.com. A former staff writer for Wired.com, he's the author of the forthcoming history of clean energy in America, Powering the Dream."
So p'raps not the world's foremost authority on the subject, but at least a reputable reporter, someone probably not willing to stick their neck out and risk his professional reputation. If he says he's seen the paper, then he's more than likely seen the paper. And if he says the paper does not announce the discovery of extraterrestrial life, then it most likely does not announce the discovery of extraterrestrial life.
oracleoflightNov 30, 2010
life is everywhere... the universe itself is alive....life is a process like planets, stars, and galaxies are... its what universes do. google the anthropic principle sometime if u want some ideas!
oracleoflightNov 30, 2010
life is everywhere... the universe itself is alive....life is a process like planets, stars, and galaxies are... its what universes do. google the anthropic principle sometime if u want some ideas!
cartman86Nov 30, 2010
Begging the question much?
motodiscDec 1, 2010
Can Nasa be hiding something or are aliens simply hiding themselves? There are so many stories about UFOs but why do they disappeared as quickly as quickly as they are spotted. Do they really exist and why are they so afraid of us or being seen?
greglewis101Dec 14, 2010
This is been an endless arguments about aliens or different life forms exist in space. How I wish they could discover an credible incidents involving this issue.