floridatoday.com— NASA is not going to be making a "huge" announcement regarding evidence of life somewhere else in our solar system today as is being erroneously reported on the Internet
Mar 9, 2006View in Crawl 4
I know the answer. It's forty-two. I checked it very thoroughly, and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.
Sure its big, and sure there is almost definatleyt life 'out there' but unless you're like Bush and his beloved WMDs you don't announce that you've found one till your have actually found it!We're a long way from that yet.
The existance of water is a pretty huge pre-condition to the existence of life. Without water, life as we know it cannot exist. Note that i say 'as we know it'. There's a possibility that it can exist without water but all about life that we know of are dependent on water.Extraterrestrial life is almost certain to exist elsewhere in the universe with the probability close to 100%. It's INTELLIGENT life that's the quandary. Bacteria and simple life forms can exist in extremely harsh condition...so it wouldn't be surprising to find them in the oddest of places. But intelligent life needs to have luck-and a certain ingredient that i think we don't know of yet. It needs luck to escape the periodic extinctions that seems to plague us like clockwork. Even on Earth we're lucky because big brother Jupiter sweeps most of the cosmic assasins out of our way. But it may not be the case elsewhere.As for the other ingredient-it's pressure, the pressure that forces a life form to develop intelligence beyond rudimentary survival instincts. However due to the sheer size of the universe, it's also certain that there will probably, somewhere, sometime be another species that is intelligent. Whether we'll ever contact them is a mystery...considering our propensity for war, i don't have faith in us not blowing ourselves to bits.
In other news, the president was not impeached today and we did not withdraw out of iraq. More news about stuff that did not happen on tomorrow's evening news!
Doesn't this sensationalism from Drudge seem like a coincidence? A very 'wag the dog' approach to buring the real news from NASA today. People looking at NASA news today are less likely to read about how the ecosystem is getting flushed down the toilet (see the front page digg article today), and spend more time talking about whether or not life is on saturn (much less important IMHO).
subscribtionMar 9, 2006
I know the answer. It's forty-two. I checked it very thoroughly, and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.
Closed AccountMar 9, 2006
Sure its big, and sure there is almost definatleyt life 'out there' but unless you're like Bush and his beloved WMDs you don't announce that you've found one till your have actually found it!We're a long way from that yet.
sidsiMar 9, 2006
That water got sea monkeys in it.........SPACE SEA MONKEYS
szelijMar 9, 2006
The existance of water is a pretty huge pre-condition to the existence of life. Without water, life as we know it cannot exist. Note that i say 'as we know it'. There's a possibility that it can exist without water but all about life that we know of are dependent on water.Extraterrestrial life is almost certain to exist elsewhere in the universe with the probability close to 100%. It's INTELLIGENT life that's the quandary. Bacteria and simple life forms can exist in extremely harsh condition...so it wouldn't be surprising to find them in the oddest of places. But intelligent life needs to have luck-and a certain ingredient that i think we don't know of yet. It needs luck to escape the periodic extinctions that seems to plague us like clockwork. Even on Earth we're lucky because big brother Jupiter sweeps most of the cosmic assasins out of our way. But it may not be the case elsewhere.As for the other ingredient-it's pressure, the pressure that forces a life form to develop intelligence beyond rudimentary survival instincts. However due to the sheer size of the universe, it's also certain that there will probably, somewhere, sometime be another species that is intelligent. Whether we'll ever contact them is a mystery...considering our propensity for war, i don't have faith in us not blowing ourselves to bits.
sotlooMar 9, 2006
NASA Stands for Never A Straight Answer
Closed AccountMar 9, 2006
In other news, the president was not impeached today and we did not withdraw out of iraq. More news about stuff that did not happen on tomorrow's evening news!
steveturesMar 9, 2006
Doesn't this sensationalism from Drudge seem like a coincidence? A very 'wag the dog' approach to buring the real news from NASA today. People looking at NASA news today are less likely to read about how the ecosystem is getting flushed down the toilet (see the front page digg article today), and spend more time talking about whether or not life is on saturn (much less important IMHO).
parasitewaspMar 10, 2006
"It's life Jim but not as we know it".....lol...sidsi...space sea monkeys with lasers strapped to their heads...