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NASA to make major announcement today; ...possible life in solar system?
Topic Started: Mar 9 2006, 08:16 AM (353 Views)
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NASA is planning to make a huge announcement today, about possible life in our own solar system.

Exact details of what we can expect to hear have not been released. We do know that evidence has been found that could point to life relatively close to the earth.

Official word is expected this afternoon at 2 p.m. We'll have complete coverage of today's big news when it is released. Tune to News 13 for the complete story.
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kenny
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Let me be first to suggest that we will hate them and kill them.
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Kincaid
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I just saw an article yesterday that both Mars rovers are still working - well past their 90-day hoped for lifespan.

Wouldn't it be cool if they found the fossil remains of a higher life form? Imagine if they found a leaf? Of course, they'd have to test it to make sure it wasn't debris blown off the earth by a meteorite.
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kenny
Mar 9 2006, 08:17 AM
Let me be first to suggest that we will hate them and kill them.

Only if they don't look or act like us.
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Exact details of what we can expect to hear have not been released. We do know that evidence has been found that could point to life relatively close to the earth.


EUROPA IS OURS
DO NOT ATTEMPT A LANDING THERE
BUT ALL THE REST IS YOURS

Something like that, I imagine.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Mar 9 2006, 11:21 AM
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Exact details of what we can expect to hear have not been released. We do know that evidence has been found that could point to life relatively close to the earth.


EUROPA IS OURS
DO NOT ATTEMPT A LANDING THERE
BUT ALL THE REST IS YOURS

Something like that, I imagine.

If Bush is involved in the declaration, a likely wording:

ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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I have inside information that says they've found an alien trailer park on Mars. That explains why the martians always visit trailer parks when they're on a mission to earth......
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FLASH:

NASA'S CASSINI DISCOVERS POTENTIAL LIQUID WATER ON ENCELADUS
Thu Mar 09 2006 11:21:33 ET

**Exclusive**

NASA's Cassini spacecraft may have found evidence of liquid water reservoirs that erupt in Yellowstone-like geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus. The rare occurrence of liquid water so near the surface raises many new questions about the mysterious moon.

"We realize that this is a radical conclusion - that we may have evidence for liquid water within a body so small and so cold," said Carolyn Porco, Cassini imaging team leader at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo. "However, if we are right, we have significantly broadened the diversity of solar system environments where we might possibly have conditions suitable for living organisms."

High-resolution Cassini images show icy jets and towering plumes ejecting huge quantities of particles at high speed. Scientists examined several models to explain the process. They ruled out the idea the particles are produced or blown off the moon's surface by vapor created when warm water ice converts to a gas. Instead, scientists have found evidence for a much more exciting possibility. The jets might be erupting from near-surface pockets of liquid water above 0 degrees Celsius (32 degrees Fahrenheit), like cold versions of the Old Faithful geyser in Yellowstone.

"We previously knew of at most three places where active volcanism exists: Jupiter's moon Io, Earth, and possibly Neptune's moon Triton. Cassini changed all that, making Enceladus the latest member of this very exclusive club, and one of the most exciting places in the solar system," said John Spencer, Cassini scientist, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder.

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"Other moons in the solar system have liquid-water oceans covered by kilometers of icy crust," said Andrew Ingersoll, imaging team member and atmospheric scientist at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. "What's different here is that pockets of liquid water may be no more than tens of meters below the surface."

"As Cassini approached Saturn, we discovered the Saturnian system is filled with oxygen atoms. At the time we had no idea where the oxygen was coming from," said Candy Hansen, Cassini scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena. "Now we know Enceladus is spewing out water molecules, which break down into oxygen and hydrogen."

Scientists still have many questions. Why is Enceladus so active? Are other sites on Enceladus active? Might this activity have been continuous enough over the moon's history for life to have had a chance to take hold in the moon's interior?

In the spring of 2008, scientists will get another chance to look at Enceladus when Cassini flies within 350 kilometers (approximately 220 miles), but much work remains after the spacecraft's four-year prime mission is over.

"There's no question, along with the moon Titan, Enceladus should be a very high priority for us. Saturn has given us two exciting worlds to explore," said Jonathan Lunine, Cassini interdisciplinary scientist, University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz.

Mission scientists report these and other Enceladus findings in this week's issue of Science.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency.

JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology
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John D'Oh
Mar 9 2006, 08:24 AM

If Bush is involved in the declaration, a  likely wording:

ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US.

:lol: :lol:

+10 points for cross-thread, cross-subject, and cross-timeline references!

:rimshot:

(and I'm also a sucker for nerd jokes, of course)
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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JBryan
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Finding the trailer park would have been much more exciting.
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There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


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kenny
Mar 9 2006, 08:17 AM
Let me be first to suggest that we will hate them and kill them.

Only if they are all GAY ALIENS!!!!!! ARRRGHGHHHH!!!

Jeez, Kenny.. what a cynical viewpoint. If we want to conquer them, all we have to do is set up TNCRs in their language. Their productivity and civilization will decline rapidly.
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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Regardless of the potential for life, there is a much greater potential for profit in a business that bottles the water and sells it to really rich people on earth.
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Saturnalia ® -- Water that is out of this world! (tm)
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That post goes really well with your new look, IT.
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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Once we improve our spaceflight, that won't be too incredibly ridiculous! I mean, heck, a great deal of people have the ability to visit Europe, or South America, or the Far East, but even now we still like "foreign stuff" (I suppose because it's different). Space trinkets will be the wave of the future, mark my words!
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JBryan
Mar 9 2006, 11:54 AM
Finding the trailer park would have been much more exciting.

Yea.... really.... Not to mention it would have confirmed my suspicions of exactly where my *EX* came from. A trailer park on Saturns moon would clear up SO much for me.
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and admiration while breaking down over even the slightest bit of criticism.

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Personally, I find that it's not always a wise thing to trash one's exes too much.

After all, you chose her. If she's so out of left field, what does that say about you?
It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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