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- Temlakos, on 05/30/2008, -0/+19As far as I know, NASA never stopped monitoring the Voyagers. The monitoring will continue until neither craft can transmit anymore.
- inactive, on 05/31/2008, -0/+18FTA "a perfect recipe for life. Just like a certain planet you might be familiar with (look down if you forget)."
I am so stupid my immediate reaction was to scroll down. - Jasper710, on 05/30/2008, -1/+16Interesting. So God created life on other planets? Why god, WHY??
- ligyron, on 05/31/2008, -0/+12So I guess NASA doesn't see Jeff Peckman's alien video as any kind of credible clue
- AmyVernon, on 05/30/2008, -3/+14cool! i still wish NASA hadn't stopped monitoring voyager when it left our solar system. who knows what we've missed since...
- Scaryclouds, on 05/31/2008, -0/+10If we find extraterrestrial life, not matter how big or small, simple or complex, it would be huge. For one it would tells we are not alone, if we find life within our solar system it means life is very common, and if we can actually study the life (hope Phoenix will get lucky!) we will learn SO MUCH. Will this alien life have DNA? If so is it to a double helix? Do they have all the same cell parts? Any field that has any relation to biology would literally explode based upon research gathered from studying any single alien lifeform.
- martinezmic, on 05/31/2008, -0/+7oh, it'll just come back in 2273 as V'Ger and Kirk will save us all
- theboozer, on 05/31/2008, -1/+7Dugg for CRYOVOLCANOS!!!
- Romax, on 05/31/2008, -0/+5GREETINGS EARTHLINGS!!!
- dullnation, on 05/31/2008, -0/+5I would have expected twice as many STARbucks...
- minigig, on 05/31/2008, -1/+6there will be getting data from the two voyagers till 2020 for sure maybe as late as 2025
- frooo, on 05/30/2008, -0/+4Intergalactic McDonalds no doubt... they're pretty much everywhere else.
- Rbstr, on 05/31/2008, -0/+4Yeah except your wrong.
Carbon 13 is roughly 1% of all the carbon on earth. While carbon 13's concentration is lower in biological sources it is not abiotic.
It is simply harder for it to be used in photosynthesis, so less of it is introduced into the biomass. - CrackyJSquirrel, on 05/31/2008, -0/+4To me just the vastness of space lets you know we are not alone. There is too much out there to think we are the only anomaly that would spawn life.
- IWDA4, on 05/31/2008, -0/+3quite tantalizing indeed.
- Niightwitch, on 05/31/2008, -0/+3There's also one theory that life that was once on Mars might have migrated to Earth, so the possibility goes both ways.
- JamesPearl, on 05/31/2008, -2/+5"As the only other body we know of with surface bodies of liquid..."
Nice.
So... any bets on how long before Haliburton begins drilling for oil? - Snowspot, on 05/30/2008, -1/+3cargo ship? gtfo!
- davbmn68, on 05/31/2008, -0/+2I watched a video that posited the theory that there may be cross contamination from earth on other planets/moons in our solar system from meteorites striking the earth and scattering debris eons ago. Very interesting thought at the very least.
- inactive, on 05/31/2008, -0/+2that was really really interesting. were not alone, its impossible in this vast universe and life so close would be phenomenal.
- endlessoul, on 05/31/2008, -0/+2I agree 100%. But we must never forget that we are very lucky to even have life here, much less sentience.
In that, the chances of us finding other life outside our solar system are very little, so far. Here's hoping our neck of the woods holds surprises for us. - tm13lke, on 05/31/2008, -0/+2its ok, i did too
- InfiniteNothing, on 05/31/2008, -0/+2They should add a repeater
- DontGiveADamn, on 05/31/2008, -0/+2Hydrocarbons on Titan! Bush has just launched an invasion.
- carpespasm, on 05/31/2008, -0/+2So that Jesus could be like a rock star on intergalactic tour, every show ending with torture, death, then resurrection to heaven as a layover before moving on to the next planet. He's got to work a lot to get in every world before a sentient species blows itself up or gets to thinking that there might not be a messiah or god coming to judge the world. When he lands on a world of atheists it's a tough sell since they usually just put him on a course of anti-psychotic meds.
- carpespasm, on 05/31/2008, -0/+1that would be awesome, but I'm pretty sure once get get out past the oort cloud they won't be coming across very much.
- slayernine, on 05/31/2008, -0/+1You mean there might be other life forms as destructive as us?
- derek20cali, on 05/31/2008, -0/+1Successful troll is successful.
- johngf2, on 05/31/2008, -0/+1huh? i am confused.
- Adam87, on 05/31/2008, -0/+1Haha seriously, lakes of liquid Methane, we could use that fuel here. I think that would be the best thing Haliburton has done for humanity.
- inactive, on 05/31/2008, -0/+1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Peckman
- baylat, on 05/31/2008, -0/+1GOOD NEWS EVERYONE!!!
- Spoomeister, on 05/31/2008, -0/+1The X-Files: I Want To Believe. Coming to theaters, July 25th.
- InfiniteNothing, on 05/31/2008, -0/+1Escape velocity?
- thefinger, on 05/31/2008, -1/+1They don't say what Titan tastes like. :( What? Is it anything like chicken??
- inactive, on 05/31/2008, -1/+1"Weather weather patterns" its very weathery there!
- inactive, on 05/31/2008, -2/+2Saturn is too chemically hostile and and cold for life.
/sarc - inactive, on 05/31/2008, -1/+1Back in 2007 Voyager 2 proved the solar system is squashed by crossing the heliosheath boundary about 10 billion miles away from Voyager 1 and almost a billion miles closer to the sun, it confirmed that our solar system is squashed. I don't know what any of that ***** means. I do know it changes it's name to Vager and grows a cloud bigger than California.
- samuella, on 09/15/2008, -0/+0oh pretty nice.
http://newworkspaces.net/discover_capture.html
http://www.sunayana2007.org
http://jossh.game-host.org/
http://search.ashtech.info/space - ell0bo, on 05/31/2008, -1/+1I'm guessing he figured we'd ***** up his try here. Why put all your eggs in one basket?
- fx666, on 05/31/2008, -2/+1The evolutionary theory is a dud. In late 1990 a group of Israeli scientists used the Information Theory to prove that the evolution cannot not possibly occur at the purported rate. Slower rate of evolution would produce only 10,000 animal species or so, which is, obviously, not the case. I am a physicist and the Information Theory is not my forte, so I cannot verify their calculation. However, so far not a single evolutionist was able to prove them wrong. NASA should abandon its search for non-existent bacteria and use the money saved on new generation of space shuttles. ***** Obama wants to cut the NASA funding and now he has an excuse.
- BarnacleBob, on 06/06/2008, -2/+1Titanic 'life' isn't the only single-celled form, either. Did I mention my neighbours?
- xceptionaly, on 05/31/2008, -6/+3This is not an Obama article from Huffington Post. Buried.
(j/k) - kipmartin, on 05/31/2008, -5/+1theyve missed Vista, Clinton, and the new $5 dollar bills. and $4.00 per gallon gas prices.
- Temlakos, on 05/30/2008, -18/+4This article is incomplete, and leaves out a key fact: most of the carbon that the Huygens descent probe detected is carbon-13, not carbon-12. That makes it abiotic.
More to the point, NASA has found lots of the alleged chemical prerequisites of life on Titan and Enceladus to name two in the Saturnine system, and on Europa and Ganymede and maybe Callisto in the Jovian. But they have never found life itself.
And let's suppose they did. Has everyone forgotten that, about 4400 years ago, Earth suffered an event that is called *cataclysm*, something orders of magnitude worse than any "catastrophe"? That event was the Great Flood. In it, the once subterranean ocaean of Earth broke through to the surface and destroyed everything, except for one primitive (or maybe not so primitive) cargo ship. In the process, it carried a lot of water and mud into space. How do you know that some of that didn't "seed" Mars and all those dwarf-planet-sized moons?
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