NASA finds life?

[Coach McGuirk]

Not sure what but seems interesting. They seem to think so, enough to hold a press conference.

MEDIA ADVISORY : M10-167

NASA Sets News Conference on Astrobiology Discovery; Science Journal Has Embargoed Details Until 2 p.m. EST On Dec. 2

WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 2, to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/nov/HQ_M10-167_Astrobiology.html

[wuapinmon]

Whoa!

[EuropeanFootballMale]

Nah. It will be something like they found a mechanism by which complex carbon molecules form in clouds of interstellar dust or something like that.

[creekster]

Nah. It will be something like they found a mechanism by which complex carbon molecules form in clouds of interstellar dust or something like that.

This is probabyl true. NASA is trying to stay releveant in the public eye during this era of budget cuts.

[Indy Coug]

SETI found an alien porn telecast.

[creekster]

SETI found an alien porn telecast.

How would they know?

[Indy Coug]

How would they know?

Because we know that the human form is the inevitable outcome of evolution -- which is how we coincidentally ended up looking like God.

[Flystripper]

How would they know?

you will know it when you see it.

[creekster]

you will know it when you see it.

Actually, this sounds like an amusing premise for a meeting of the cultures sort of SNL skit.

[Jarid in Cedar]

Actually, this sounds like an amusing premise for a meeting of the cultures sort of SNL skit.

I can't find a clip, but Kirstie Alley 1991, Season 17, Episode 3 did a skit called "Their Eyes Were On Their Breasts", hilarious.

[BlueHair]

There has to be life somewhere in the vast universe. I just don't understand why we need to find it.

[BlueHair]

Because we know that the human form is the inevitable outcome of evolution -- which is how we coincidentally ended up looking like God.

I doubt we know what God looks like. We can't even get Jesus right and it's only been a couple of thousand years.

[ewth8tr]

http://gizmodo.com/5704158/nasa-finds-new-life

At their conference today, NASA scientist Felisa Wolfe Simon will announce that they have found a bacteria whose DNA is completely alien to what we know today. Instead of using phosphorus, the bacteria uses arsenic.

[Clark Addison]

http://gizmodo.com/5704158/nasa-finds-new-life

That sounds like the start of a horror movie. I might lock myself in the basement before the hordes of arsenic spewing aliens invade us.

[RobinFinderson]

Very cool, but I'm a little disappointed that the life isn't extraterrestrial.