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chronicpride
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 Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 7:43 am Post subject: Major announcement by NASA about other life in solar system |
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http://cfnews13.com/StoryHeadline.aspx?id=13873
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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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That's 2pm eastern, AFAIK, which is in a couple of hours. 10,000 won says that its nothing more than an amoeba or something. |
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EFLtrainer
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| Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 8:36 am Post subject: Re: Major announcement by NASA about other life in solar sys |
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| chronicpride wrote: |
| That's 2pm eastern, AFAIK, which is in a couple of hours. 10,000 won says that its nothing more than an amoeba or something. |
Probably nothing more than the high probability of life or former life on Mars, which is pretty much already a given |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 8:52 am Post subject: |
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Probably, given that Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is on (or just completed) final approach.
2 PM EST is in 2 hours 10 min. |
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nautilus
Joined: 26 Nov 2005
Location: Je jump, Tu jump, oui jump!
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| Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:01 am Post subject: |
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I predict no. There is no other life out there.
if they say yes, I want very clear proof.
not some dodgy pics of UFO's.
Not some digitally enhanced pics of tiny shapes that could by a stretch of the imagination be molecules or germs.
Not some blurred pics of shapes that resemble worm holes or algae.
Not some protien chains that could've been planted by accidental contamination with something from earth. |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:22 am Post subject: |
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| Would klingons on uranus do? |
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Summer Wine
Joined: 20 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:41 am Post subject: |
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Would klingons on uranus do?
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Yes, but I want to be there for their second photo shoot to confirm 
Edit, Oh only if you were talking about a certain planet called Uranus. Not a persons |
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The Bobster
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:49 am Post subject: Re: Major announcement by NASA about other life in solar sys |
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| chronicpride wrote: |
| 10,000 won says that its nothing more than an amoeba or something. |
Actually, an extraterrestrial amoeba ought to be worth much more than 10,000 won. |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 10:03 am Post subject: |
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| Summer Wine wrote: |
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Would klingons on uranus do?
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Yes, but I want to be there for their second photo shoot to confirm
Edit, Oh only if you were talking about a certain planet called Uranus. Not a persons |
It's a scatalogical kids' joke, cling-ons on your anus?
I thought everyone learned that one in grade 5... |
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chronicpride
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 10:21 am Post subject: |
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Well, I'm cynical because I'm a believer that the govt knows a little more than they are letting on, on this issue. So when NASA likely gets on the horn with the National Science Advisor at the White House and gets permission to reveal crumbs of info to the public, I'm not expecting anything newsworthy. I'd be more apt to think that the public is being sussed out for their take on these press releases, to gauge how much we can handle without making people twitch or get in a panic. The religious groups and that voting base would NOT take the idea of ET very kindly, at this particular young stage of our civilization. Muslims and Jews fighting over Temple Mount would be nothing compared to having almost all religions being affected by ET existence. Much better to spoonfeed the media on an escalatory basis over a protracted period of time.
As for this news release, it looks like it's just about them giving a definite maybe about the existence of a building block of life (water) on one of Saturn's moons, which they won't be able to confirm for another 2 years on the next flyby.
http://www.drudgereport.com/flash8na.htm
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NASA'S CASSINI DISCOVERS POTENTIAL LIQUID WATER ON ENCELADUS
Thu Mar 09 2006 11:21:33 ET
**Exclusive**
[Press release set for 2 PM ET release]
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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I'm going back to sleep. |
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Summer Wine
Joined: 20 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 10:33 am Post subject: |
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I thought everyone learned that one in grade 5...
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Depends on if you were ever in grade 5 |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:55 pm Post subject: |
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Grade 5... or the equivalent.
I guess if you go through forms rather than grades you're more apt to receive a lampoonless education.
Oh well, we all have our crosses to bear...
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laogaiguk
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| Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 2:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Would sure as hell explain some of the posters on this site. |
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mindmetoo
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| Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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| So, no major NASA press release about life... |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 5:58 pm Post subject: |
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What people don't understand is that the aliens who control the American government through the Masons have set up two secret groups inside the government. One group, the Hiders, is in charge of hiding the information that the aliens are all around us and have been running everything for years. The other group, the Revealers, is in charge of filming phoney space exploration events on Hollywood sound stages to make people think space travel is actually possible when it clearly isn't.
I want to tell you more, but I need to keep moving. That man over there is looking at me strangely. He may be one of THEM. For the full story, get the 1792 French edition of the Encyclopedia and count every $% letter, starting from.....help! help! He's got me.... |
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jinglejangle
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