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Hubble Detects Organic Molecule on an Extrasolar Planet

sev.prnewswire.com — NASA will hold a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, March 19, to report on the first-ever detection of the organic molecule methane in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting a distant star!!

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  • BigManOnCampus, on 03/15/2008, -6/+121like how the first "detection" of "extra-solar life" is the remote equivalent of smelling a fart.
    • acrodev, on 03/15/2008, -1/+91Good news everyone. The Smelloscope works.
      • amrhassan, on 03/15/2008, -3/+2rofl
      • specialK16, on 03/16/2008, -2/+5Sometimes I feel so happy that people in here love Futurama as much as I do

        *cries.
      • tkotam, on 03/16/2008, -0/+1Kiss my shiny metal ass!!!
    • sanman, on 03/15/2008, -1/+6could be WMD
    • wal9000, on 03/15/2008, -14/+3Organic ≠ Alive
      • Spytap, on 03/15/2008, -4/+25If you'd read the article you would have noticed the part where they pointed that out. The rest of us did and thus felt no need to comment on it. You fail. Please return to AOL.
        • bonhoeffer, on 03/16/2008, -2/+2Apparently BigManOnCampus didn't notice "the part where they pointed that out."
          • BigManOnCampus, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1"no", "I" "completely" " missed" "that" "part"
    • MortalynFlux, on 03/15/2008, -2/+44Actually, the part of the fart that smells is the hydrogen sulfide. Methane is odorless.
      • Picaroon, on 03/15/2008, -0/+20Party pooper
      • DocGlass, on 03/15/2008, -6/+2dugg it
      • sponeil, on 03/16/2008, -1/+0And I always thought it was the bacteria in your intestinal tract.
      • MortalynFlux, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1Of all the well-thought out, insightful comments I have posted on Digg, the one that gets the most diggs is about farting?
      • BigManOnCampus, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1Yes, but that kills the humor.
    • paradexes, on 03/15/2008, -2/+5Which makes you wonder, if they have technology that can detect the components of a fart on other planets, how long before farting in public on earth is one of the many things that becomes a punishable, and trackable from space offense?
      • EmileVictor, on 03/16/2008, -0/+1I imagine most spy satellites would be able to generate a spectrum of chemicals down to a very low resolution. Hence, you could have a layer on google earth which tracks where a certain chemical is in which abundance.

        (Though I'm not so sure what the atmosphere would do to the results)
    • 0crabby0, on 03/16/2008, -1/+2Maybe it's a type of Tholin?
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tholin
    • DeucesWild, on 03/16/2008, -0/+1We can detect a fart on another planet yet we still don't know where Osama bin Laden is on this one.
  • lhbaker, on 03/15/2008, -5/+74Just one molecule? That's amazing!
    • SeventhSon, on 03/15/2008, -0/+89They just had the CSI guys zoom in on it.
      • serif69, on 03/15/2008, -1/+50Enhance... Enhance... Enhance...
        • MarkTaiwan, on 03/15/2008, -1/+6They probably have to enhance it 5000 times over to detect it.
        • kingfoot, on 03/15/2008, -3/+22i would have guessed it would take OVER 9000!!!!!
          • Eiknujrac, on 03/16/2008, -0/+2How unusually in context, congratulations.
        • jackmayhoff, on 03/15/2008, -0/+3That's a lotta Dimp!
        • alittleroy101, on 03/15/2008, -0/+8Just print the damn thing
      • BigManOnCampus, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1wow, that literally made me laugh out loud.
    • Lutremi, on 03/15/2008, -1/+2But if you think about it, one can turn to two, then two can turn into a quadzillion.
    • bonhoeffer, on 03/16/2008, -1/+2No, Hubble didn't find the ONLY molecule of methane. Methane is determinable by its compound molecule. (Not its ONLY compound molecule, dummy; its generic, typical compound molecule.) The marvel of Hubble is that it can detect a compound molecule and thus identify organic substances.
    • pandikukka, on 03/16/2008, -0/+1that is why, I ***** get confused how microscope and telescope work
  • diggface5000, on 03/15/2008, -2/+87This says more about the impressive capabilities of Hubble than it does about possibly finding life. Planets and moons in our own solar system have methane without life (as far as we know.) Still, knowing it's possible to detect organic molecules is a big step for science.
    • Shogi, on 03/15/2008, -1/+32Yeah, and just think, the Hubble is decades old, soon to be replaced with bigger and better.
    • zaknick, on 03/15/2008, -23/+1WOW...how nearsighted of you guys....WE HAVE DISCOVERED LIFE NOT OF THIS EARTH....NOW DO U UNDERSTAND ? jeez
      • rossisdead, on 03/15/2008, -0/+9Methane's alive now?
      • m0tbaillie, on 03/16/2008, -0/+7Good job reading the article, where it EXPLICITLY says that just because it is an organic molecule, does not mean that it is alive.
    • Logicexe, on 03/15/2008, -0/+12Actually, depending on the amount of methane it may be a possible indicator of life. I unfortunately don't remember the details, but it has something to do with the ratio of methane to other molecules in the atmosphere. Methane tends to react with other molecules when exposed to solar radiation. Our planet's methane ratio is abnormally high because living things produce methane, if our planet did not have life it wouldn't have as much methane in the atmosphere. This is partially the reason why climate scientists are not as concerned about methane as they are CO2, despite the fact that methane is a better GHG than CO2.

      So while it may not be an indicator on this discovered planet, it may be used as an indicator in the future.
      • petrodollar, on 03/16/2008, -2/+2"This is partially the reason why climate scientists are not as concerned about methane as they are CO2"

        Huh? Why does the source matter as to whether it's a worrisome GHG?
        • Logicexe, on 03/16/2008, -0/+4It's not the source that matters, it's the fact that methane quickly breaks down and reacts with other molecules in the atmosphere and doesn't build up as easily as CO2. Sorry, I reread my post and it does seem as though I implied that the source was the reason for the concern. My bad.
  • RobotDan, on 03/15/2008, -21/+1That's intriguing...
    But can it tell me how many molecules are on Leonard Nemoy's butt?
    • RealmDown, on 03/15/2008, -0/+6I'm glad it can't tell me why you want to know.
    • treyd, on 03/15/2008, -0/+6NASA can, but they'd probably be off by three...
    • nonstop87, on 03/16/2008, -3/+3 Way back when I was just a little bitty boy living in a box under the
      stairs in the corner of the basement of the house half a block down the
      street from Jerry's Bait Shop... You know the place... Well anyway,
      back then life was going swell and everything was juuuuust peachy...
      except of course for the undeniable fact that every single morning my
      mother would make me a big ol' bowl of sauerkraut for breakfast.
      Dawww!! Big bowl of sauerkraut!
      Every single mornin'! It was driving me crazy.

      I said to my mom, I said, "Hey, mom, what's up with all the sauerkraut?"
      And my dear, sweet mother, she just looked at me like a cow looks at an
      oncoming train. And she leaned right down next to me, and she said, "IT'S
      GOOD FOR YOU!" And then she tied me to the wall and stuck a funnel in my
      mouth and force fed me nothing but sauerkraut until I was 26 and a half
      years old.

      That's when I swore that someday, someday I would get outta that
      basement and travel to a magical, far away place, where the sun is
      always shining and the air smells like warm root beer, and the towels
      are oh so fluffy! Where the shriners and the lepers play their ukuleles
      all day long, and anyone on the street will gladly shave your back for
      a nickel!

      Wacka wacka, doo doo, yeah!

      Well, let me tell you, people, it wasn't long at all before my dream
      came true. Because the very next day, a local radio station had this
      contest to see who could correctly guess the number of molecules in
      Leonard Nimoy's butt. I was off by three, but I still won the grand
      prize. That's right, a first class, one-way ticket...

      to Albuquerque!
      Albuquerque!

      Oh yeah. You know, I'd never been on a real airplane before, and I gotta
      tell ya, it was really great... except that I had to sit between two large
      Albanian women with excruciatingly severe body odor. And the little kid in
      back of me kept throwin' up the whole time. The flight attendants ran out of
      Dr. Pepper and salted peanuts, and the in-flight movie was Bio-Dome with
      Pauly Shore...and, oh yeah, three of the airplane engines burned out, and we
      went into a tailspin and crashed into a hillside and the plane exploded in a
      giant fireball and everybody died. Except for me. You know why?

      'Cause I had my tray table up
      And my seat back in the full upright position
      Had my tray table up
      And my seat back in the full upright position
      Had my tray table up
      And my seat back in the full upright position

      Ah-ha-ha-ha. Ah-ha-ha. Aahhh. So I crawled from the twisted, burnin'
      wreckage, I crawled on my hands and knees for three full days, draggin'
      along my big leather suitcase and my garment bag and my tenor saxophone
      and my 12-pound bowlin' ball and my lucky, lucky autographed
      glow-in-the-dark snorkel. But finally I arrived at the world famous
      Albuquerque Holiday Inn where the towels are oh so fluffy! And you can
      eat your soup right out of the ashtrays if you wanna. It's OK, they're
      clean.

      Well, I checked into my room, and I turned down the A/C, and I turned
      on the SpectraVision, and I'm just about to eat that little chocolate
      mint on my pillow that I love so very, very much, when suddenly there's
      a knock on the door. Well, now, who could that be?

      I say, "Who is it?" No answer.
      "Who is it?" There's no answer.
      "WHO IS IT!?" They're not sayin' anything.
      So finally, I go over and I open the door, and just as I suspected,
      it's some big, fat hermaphrodite with a flock of seagulls, haircut, and
      only one nostril. Oh, man, I hate it when I'm right.

      So, anyway, he bursts into my room, and he grabs my lucky snorkel, and
      I'm like, "Hey, you can't have that! That snorkel's been just like a
      snorkel to me."

      And he's like, "Tough!"
      And I'm like, "Give it!"
      And he's like, "Make me!"
      And I'm like, "'kay!"
      So I grabbed his leg and he grabbed my esophagus, and I bit off his ear
      and he chewed off my eyebrows, and I took out his appendix and he gave
      a colonic irrigation, yes indeed, you better believe it. And somehow in
      the middle of it all, the phone got knocked off the hook. And twenty
      seconds later, I heard a familiar voice. And you know what it said?
      I'll tell ya what it said!

      It said, "If you'd like to make a call, please hang up and try again.
      If you need help, hang up and then dial your operator.
      If you'd like to make a call, please hang up and try again.
      If you need help, hang up and then dial your operator."

      In Albuquerque!
      Albuquerque!

      Well, to cut a long story short, he got away with my snorkel. But I
      made a solemn vow right then and there that I would not rest, I would
      not sleep for an instant, until the one-nostrilled man was brought to
      justice.

      But first, I decided to buy some donuts. So I got in my car, and I
      drove over to the donut shop, and I walked on up to the guy behind the
      counter and he says, "Yeah, whaddaya want??"

      I said, "You got any glazed donuts?"
      He said, "Nah, we're outta glazed donuts."
      I say, "Well, you got any jelly donuts?"
      He said, "No, we're outta jelly donuts."
      I said, "You got any Bavarian cream-filled donuts?"
      He said, "No, we're outta Bavarian cream-filled donuts."
      I said, "You got any cinnamon rolls?"
      He said, "No, we're outta cinnamon rolls!"
      I said, "You got any apple fritters?"
      He said, "No, we're outta apple fritters!"
      I said, "You got any bear claws?"
      He said, "Wait a minute, I'll go check."

      "No, we're outta bear claws!"
      I said, "Well, in that case... in that case, what do you have?"
      He says, "All I got right now is this box of one dozen starving crazed weasels."
      I said, "OK, I'll take that."
      So he hands me the box, and I open up the lid, and the weasels jump out
      and they immediately latch onto my face and start bitin' me all over.
      Oh, man, they were just goin' nuts! They were tearin' me apart! You
      know, I think it was just about that time that a little ditty started
      goin' through my head. I believe it went a little somethin' like this:

      DOH! Get 'em off me! Get 'em off me! Ohhh! No, get 'em off, get 'em
      off! Oh, oh God, oh God! Oh, get 'em off me! Oh, oh God! Ah,
      AaaaaaahhhhhhhhhOhhhhhhhhhh!

      I ran out into the street with these flesh-eating weasels all over my
      face, wavin' my arms all around and just runnin', runnin', runnin' like
      a constipated wiener dog. And as luck would have it, that's exactly
      when I ran into the girl of my dreams. Her name was Zelda. She was a
      caligraphy enthusiast, with a slight overbite, and hair the color of
      strained peaches. I'll never forget the very first thing she said to
      me. She said, "Hey, you've got weasels on your face."

      That's when I knew it was true love. We were inseparable after that.
      Aw, we ate together, we bathed together, we even shared the same piece
      of mint-flavored dental floss. The world was our burrito. So we got
      married, and we bought us a house and had two beautiful children,
      Nathaniel and Superfly. Oh we were so very, very, very happy, oh yeah.
      But then, one fateful night, Zelda said to me, she said, "Sweetie
      pumpkin? Do you wanna join the Columbia Record Club?" I said, "Woah!
      Hold on now, baby! I'm just not ready for that kind of a commitment!"

      So we broke up, and I never saw her again
      but that's just the way things go

      In Albuquerque!
      Albuquerque!

      Anyway, things really started lookin' up for me, because about a week
      later, I finally achieved my lifelong dream. That's right, I got me a
      part-time job at the Sizzler! I even made employee of the month after I
      put out that grease fire with my face. Aw yeah, everybody was pretty
      jealous of me after that. I was gettin' a lot of attitude.

      OK, like one time, I was out in the parkin' lot, tryin' to remove my excess
      earwax with a golf pencil, when I see this guy Marty
      tryin' to carry a big ol' sofa up the stairs all by himself. So I-I say to
      him, I say, "Hey, you want me to help you with that?" And
      Marty, he just rolls his eyes and goes, "No, I want you
      to cut off my arms and legs with a chainsaw!" So I did.

      And then he gets all indignant on me. He's like, "Hey, man, I was just
      being sarcastic!" Well, that's just great. How was I supposed to know
      that? I'm not a mind reader, for cryin' out loud. Besides, now he's got
      a really cute nickname - Torso-Boy! So what's he complaining about?

      Say, that reminds me of another amusing anecdote. This guy comes up to
      me on the street and he tells me he hasn't had a bite in three days.
      Well, I knew what he meant, but just to be funny, I took a big bite out
      of his jugular vein. And he's yelling and screaming and bleeding all
      over, and I'm like, "Hey, come on, don'tcha get it?" But he just keeps
      rolling around on the sidewalk, bleeding and screaming, "Aaaahhhh!
      AaaaahhhhOhhhhh! Aaaaahhhh!" You know, completely missing the irony of
      the whole situation. Man, some people just can't take a joke, you know?

      Anyway, um...um...where was I? Kinda lost my train of thought.

      Uh, well, uh, OK, anyway, I-I know it's kind of a roundabout way of
      saying it, but, I guess the whole point I'm tryin' to make here is...
      I HATE SAUERKRAUT!

      That's all I'm really tryin' to say. And, by the way,
      if one day you happen to wake up and find yourself in an existential
      quandry, full of loathing and self-doubt and wracked with the pain and
      isolation of your pitiful meaningless existence, at least you can take
      a small bit of comfort in knowing that somewhere out there in this
      crazy ol' mixed-up universe of ours, there's still a little place

      called Albuquerque!
  • chrisc3, on 03/15/2008, -16/+1wow just 1 huh
  • sc0rpi0n, on 03/15/2008, -16/+1Damn why doesn't it detect oxygen or water instead?! In solar system, we've got plenty of methane planets. We want only oxygen and water planets.
    • Shogi, on 03/15/2008, -1/+22Extra-terrestrial life is not limited only to our particular environment. There could very well be life on a methane planet.
      • tocsy, on 03/15/2008, -4/+3You know, I've always wondered about that. You only ever hear of astronomers looking for water on other planets, because it's supposedly 'necessary for life.' To me that seems like a very limited way to look at it... what's necessary for life on our planet might not be in some other part of the universe.
        • Logicexe, on 03/15/2008, -0/+7I agree with you, but until we actually know what to look for we can't actually look for unknown forms of life. We can't look for indicators of unknown forms of life because we don't know what indicators we should be looking for.
        • Slagtits, on 03/15/2008, -2/+3There are known knowns, there are known unknowns.....
        • BigManOnCampus, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1Well, if we do find non-water-soluble life someday, then we probably won't mix very well with them.
      • ejan, on 03/15/2008, -0/+6As far as we know, water is a requirement for life, but that means very little. Also, I could be wrong, but I think they usually identify gasses like these using spectrometry, so they aren't actually looking for anything in particular, just observing.
        • BigManOnCampus, on 03/17/2008, -1/+1It is arrogance/hubris to say that water is a requirement for life, since the only thing we have seen is Earth life. Technically water is not used by life, except as a lubricant for chemical reactions. There are other things that chemical reactions can take place in.
      • bonhoeffer, on 03/16/2008, -1/+0It must be smaller than a molecule.
    • iDiggIt42, on 03/15/2008, -0/+13It's also since, at one time, Earth was a methane planet, so it is believed that being a methane planet is one of the first steps in the creation (and evolution) of life.
      • Terrk, on 03/15/2008, -5/+2So my farts have the power of life?!
        • iDiggIt42, on 03/15/2008, -0/+5Well, yes, since the first bacteria on Earth "inhaled" (if you can call it that) methane and had oxygen as a waste product (similar to how we inhale oxygen and have carbon dioxide as a waste product).
      • bonhoeffer, on 03/16/2008, -3/+0Step 2 in evolution is a swirling primordial brew of proteins and acids.
        Step 3 is a bolt of lightening.
        Its all very scientific . . . or witchcraft.
  • Shogi, on 03/15/2008, -26/+12Take that creationists.
  • eleli, on 03/15/2008, -29/+5IM IN UR DISTENT GALIXY MAKIN YOU BELIEV IN ALYENS N STUFF
  • Hentez, on 03/15/2008, -6/+31This could have been found a long time ago with Professor Farnsworth Smell-O-Scope
    • SneakyPhil, on 03/15/2008, -8/+3Already been done, try checking the reply to comment 1.
    • stevealford, on 03/16/2008, -3/+3They might be digging your comment, but I have to bury you on the grounds that the Professor's Smell-O-Scope wasn't around "a long time ago." He hasn't even been born yet to invent it.
    • SlamShut, on 03/16/2008, -4/+3Well, they actually tried to order the Smell-O-Scope, but Farnsworth inadvertantly sent them the Frog Exaggerator instead.
      • Jennefah, on 03/16/2008, -0/+1The Frog Exaggerator was invented by Professor John Frink, not Professor Farnsworth.
        Now if you'd said the Fing-Longer... he might make that mistake. I still doubt it though, because he's very attached to his Fing-Longer.
    • Soave, on 03/16/2008, -0/+1But it won't be invented until the year 3000.
  • mkling176, on 03/15/2008, -7/+21pics or it didn't happen
  • Serphyas, on 03/15/2008, -22/+8***** THE RIAA
  • DeadlyCouncil, on 03/15/2008, -3/+66NASA needs more funding!
  • daxsymbiont, on 03/15/2008, -13/+3***** hell.
  • wilhoitm, on 03/15/2008, -1/+4What is the name of the planet?
    • Retnuh730, on 03/15/2008, -0/+9Yeah, there's no source and theres next to no details. Do we wait until the press conference for that stuff?
      • zaknick, on 03/15/2008, -5/+1Yeah, in the immortal words of Wendy, " Where's the beef ?" !!!
    • taffyhealscrowd, on 03/15/2008, -2/+12Uranus.
    • moolaismyfriend, on 03/15/2008, -0/+5Jesus planet
    • nighthawk8713, on 03/15/2008, -1/+2Organic Methane? Sounds like Dagobah.
    • Tahiri, on 03/16/2008, -0/+4Urectum
  • benbfree, on 03/15/2008, -10/+371. Build a big satellite telescope.
    2. Scan everything in the entire universe with aforementioned telescope.
    3. Find the molecule you were looking for 5000 light years away.
    4. ???
    5. ???
    • diggit23, on 03/15/2008, -3/+196. Profit?
    • Philluminati, on 03/15/2008, -2/+287. hold a press conference
    • ultragames, on 03/16/2008, -4/+28. Steal organic molecule's underwear.
      9. ......
      10. More profit!
    • Evontno, on 03/16/2008, -5/+38. hold the REAL press conference after the press conference announcing the press conference.
    • mhuggins, on 03/16/2008, -6/+1I'm so tired of people trying to convert this meme to fit their needs. It's not funny anymore, you've killed it. It's dead. Long dead.
  • dstamat, on 03/15/2008, -13/+24I, for one, welcome our new organic molecule methane overlords.
  • jrmyjms, on 03/15/2008, -18/+7Wonder what they found when they pointed it at Uranus. Sorry couldn't resist.
  • jacekpoplawski, on 03/15/2008, -3/+10Organic molecule without life? What does it mean?
    • Zaxcomp, on 03/15/2008, -2/+20More attention should have been paid in chemistry.
    • RyeBrye, on 03/16/2008, -0/+2It means that the Methane was harvested without the use of fertilizer.
  • paradexes, on 03/15/2008, -14/+2Which makes you wonder, if they have technology that can detect the components of a fart on other planets, how long before farting in public on earth is one of the many things that becomes a punishable, and trackable from space offense?

    Nanny Government, here we come...if not here already.
  • Pinkshisno, on 03/15/2008, -2/+17It's the home planet of the Grunts from Halo.
  • orlandorays, on 03/15/2008, -6/+23The Rare Earth hypothesis and all forms of Creationism are about to crumble.
    • theshizzler, on 03/16/2008, -0/+7Most religion will adapt as they have before. It will simply be taken less and less literally as the science that refutes it is discovered. The beliefs which are directly opposed to this (such as the Rare Earthers) will view this as heresy and deny it like they deny many other things which would question their worldview.
      • BigManOnCampus, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1There's still plenty about the universe that we do not understand. Religion will have no shortage of things to latch onto. In fact, with Scientology we may be previewing the next generation of religions.
  • Sananda, on 03/15/2008, -11/+31.Build a network of telescopes in space
    2.Find Alien Life in extra solar system
    3.Create an alien Big Brother show
    4. Profit!
    • Owwmykneecap, on 03/15/2008, -1/+1Day 8 6.49PM Ekyfrqwyreq8w and hfsdspojdoihsd654553s are in the Hot Tub drinking.
  • caponumen, on 03/15/2008, -8/+3Big deal, look at comets or Titan, hydrocarbons are ubiquitous and their presence is not an indicator of life processes.
    • roflcopters, on 03/15/2008, -0/+3You have to look at this from another angle: finding an organic molecule outside of the solar system makes life in the rest of the galaxy seem a lot more probable. Sure, finding methane is not a definitive answer, but it's better evidence than having not found methane.
    • bonhoeffer, on 03/16/2008, -1/+0Of course this is not about life; but what is it that is unique: the detection of a hydrocarbon or the detection of methane? DIGG posters are claiming both are common.
      Maybe where it was found, this unidentified planet, makes the discovery unique.
  • iainc, on 03/15/2008, -4/+4[comment withdrawn]
    • Owwmykneecap, on 03/15/2008, -3/+5[Penis withdrawn]




      [Satisfied Lip Smacks]
    • Tahiri, on 03/16/2008, -2/+4"[Satisfied Lip Smacks]"

      Does your genitalia dispense soda rather than the disgusting garbage they normally do?
      • BigManOnCampus, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1Carbonated liquid in the urethra == pain
  • moolaismyfriend, on 03/15/2008, -7/+13cool, so when we find organic life on another planet are all the religious zealots gonna come and and explain that Jesus dies for their sins too?
    • stevealford, on 03/16/2008, -1/+4Yes. It's the only way to rationalize their beliefs with new evidence. They'll say that the bible doesn't exclude the possibility of life on other planets, therefore if such a thing exists, it was placed there by "God" and given the chance to redeem its sins through "Christ," etc, etc, ad nauseum, ad infinitum.
      • Azerael, on 03/16/2008, -0/+3Since when does rationalizing come into it? If they were going to rationalize their beliefs, they'd abandon them for something more... well, *rational*.
        • WocCixelsyd, on 03/16/2008, -0/+2However, rationalizing a situation can also mean coming up with pleasing but incorrect logic for a problem, which I believe is what stevealford was meaning.
    • bonhoeffer, on 03/16/2008, -4/+2Find the organic life, then we'll talk.
    • Azerael, on 03/16/2008, -1/+2I just hope they're more advanced than we are so they can beat the ***** out of us if we try.
  • alenox, on 03/15/2008, -7/+1Oh noes!! teh urthlings haz ditekted us...
    • roflcopters, on 03/15/2008, -1/+3So the methane breathing aliens are lolcats?
  • Existenz87, on 03/15/2008, -6/+2This is image is distorted. Enhance.
  • mikes4397, on 03/15/2008, -7/+16Take that bible!
    • heyiquit, on 03/15/2008, -4/+3Take what bible? You know they give them out for free, right?
      • moolaismyfriend, on 03/15/2008, -4/+4That everything in it is rendered complete ***** with each new scientific revelation about our true place in the universe.
    • roflcopters, on 03/15/2008, -5/+1Take that grammar!
    • mikes4397, on 03/16/2008, -0/+11Take that, comma!
  • Owwmykneecap, on 03/15/2008, -2/+4CH4 WOOT!
  • tehbored, on 03/15/2008, -1/+5Just because the planet is too hot to support typical earth-like life, doesn't mean there can't be single-sell extremophiles there. There are plenty of unicellular organisms on Earth that can survive in extreme temperatures.
    • moolaismyfriend, on 03/15/2008, -7/+2...that's what Jesus said...
    • bonhoeffer, on 03/16/2008, -4/+0Name two. Oh, and define "extreme temperatures."
  • lukeydukey, on 03/15/2008, -5/+2Man at first I read that Hubbard Detects Organic Molecule...
  • robodork, on 03/15/2008, -8/+1the methane could just be fart, my bad
  • Woodstove, on 03/15/2008, -1/+4How about all that war funding? With that money we probably could have found bushels of Aliens by now, then the scientologists could relax.
  • gllopc, on 03/15/2008, -3/+5I guess someone finally pulled ETs long-ass finger.
  • replaysMike, on 03/16/2008, -0/+8That's one helluva zoom! They would have detected it earlier but someone forgot to put it in "digital" mode.
  • bonhoeffer, on 03/16/2008, -5/+1Take than evolutionists!
  • KingBunny, on 03/16/2008, -0/+4Building us up for official disclosure?
    *cross fingers*

    I would like to remind everyone that there are far more GALAXIES in the universe than there are STARS in our galaxy. :)
    • crowsmurder, on 03/16/2008, -0/+1There are more GALAXIES in the UNIVERSE the there are grains of SAND on all the Earths beaches. And somehow we are the only life forms.....
    • MadGangster, on 03/16/2008, -0/+1... but in a few billion years we wont be able to see the other galaxies anyway. (thx expanding universe)
  • ASSASSYN360, on 03/16/2008, -1/+3Human fart is composed of methane. Aparently, so is E.T's
    http://www.heptune.com/farts.html
  • ASSASSYN360, on 03/16/2008, -0/+7Methane eh...I hope nothing there discovers fire.
  • Maevirko69, on 03/16/2008, -4/+2This isn't exactly big news. Organic molecules are fairly common in the interstellar medium. They form naturally all the time, but this doesn't necessarily prove life forming in other places.
    • bonhoeffer, on 03/16/2008, -0/+1Were they discovered by NICMOS?
      If not, how were they discovered?
      If so, why is this discovery "unique"?
  • seejunaid, on 03/16/2008, -9/+0*****.... Shut these expenses down so we can have cheaper food & Somalians and Ethiopians can have food and clean drinking water.... Humanity comes first Mr. Fcuk W. Bush
    • theshizzler, on 03/16/2008, -0/+5Woah there, take your medicines.
  • dvdchris, on 03/16/2008, -0/+2Isn't this the same thing posted in February? http://digg.com/space/Organic_molecules_found_on_a ...
  • rapmusicyay, on 03/16/2008, -2/+01. build telescope
    2. send it way out in to space
    3. ???
    4. profit
    • Treason, on 03/16/2008, -0/+11. Eat *****
      2. Die in a couch fire
      3. ???
      4. Profit
  • pandikukka, on 03/16/2008, -0/+1I never thought it can also work as Hubble microscope
  • bstory, on 03/16/2008, -0/+1Timed for the release of Horton Hears a Who
  • wracker92, on 03/17/2008, -0/+0In space no one can smell your methane -- but now we will know when you tooted thanks to Mr. Hubble.
  • lolo2007, on 06/17/2008, -0/+0Just because the planet is too hot to support typical earth-like life, doesn't mean there can't be single-sell extremophiles there. There are plenty of unicellular organisms on Earth that can survive in extreme temperatures.

    http://vb.paramegsoft.com/tags/%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF% ...
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    http://girls.paramegsoft.com/
  • al876ani, on 08/20/2008, -0/+0http://forums.m7taj.com/thread27882.html http://forums.m7taj.com/thread27888.html http://forums.m7taj.com/thread27883.html http://forums.m7taj.com/thread27896.html http://forums.m7taj.com/thread27891.html http://forums.m7taj.com/thread6938.html http://forums.m7taj.com/thread26567.html http://m7taj.com/forums/thread17149.html http://www.rooo7i.net/card http://forums.m7taj.com/thread26590.html http://forums.graaam.com/49 http://forums.graaam.com/66456.html http://forums.graaam.com/91611.html
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