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My dad works for NASA, and the fact that he has yet to blather on about this means it's underwhelming.
Atomicflea wrote:
My dad works for NASA, and the fact that he has yet to blather on about this means it's underwhelming.
Janitors not in the loop anymore?
"If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders". Carlin.
paulsol wrote:
Atomicflea wrote:
My dad works for NASA, and the fact that he has yet to blather on about this means it's underwhelming.
Janitors not in the loop anymore?
The 1% of space he has to monitor just happens to be void of celestial bodies.
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paulsol wrote:
Atomicflea wrote:
My dad works for NASA, and the fact that he has yet to blather on about this means it's underwhelming.
Janitors not in the loop anymore?
Atomicflea wrote:
paulsol wrote:
Atomicflea wrote:
My dad works for NASA, and the fact that he has yet to blather on about this means it's underwhelming.
Janitors not in the loop anymore?
I'm sure she's totally hawt
I'd have a hawt chick if I worked for NASA, thats for sure.
"If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders". Carlin.
Shadowstrike wrote:
The 1% of space he has to monitor just happens to be void of celestial bodies.
Doubt it.
"The Rich are there to take all of the money & pay none of the taxes, the middle class is there to do all the work and pay all the taxes, and the poor are there to scare the crap out of the middle class." -George Carlin
Atomicflea wrote:
paulsol wrote:
Atomicflea wrote:
My dad works for NASA, and the fact that he has yet to blather on about this means it's underwhelming.
Don't get all defensive because Mexicans can't get smart jobs at NASA. I'm sure if your mother is fat it's only because she popped you out.
Stubbs wrote:
Phil plait has become less of an information source and more a self-promoting jackass.
He's just trying to get his TV show picked up.
Also, alternative theory to the OP: Is related to that Japanese probe that brought back stuff from the asteroid.
"The Rich are there to take all of the money & pay none of the taxes, the middle class is there to do all the work and pay all the taxes, and the poor are there to scare the crap out of the middle class." -George Carlin
Omegavegeta wrote:
Stubbs wrote:
Phil plait has become less of an information source and more a self-promoting jackass.
He's just trying to get his TV show picked up.
I watched his pilot episode and wasn't impressed.
Edited, Dec 1st 2010 1:33pm by BrownDuck
paulsol wrote:
I'd have a hawt chick if I worked for NASA, thats for sure.
I'm sure New Zealand has some movie props left over where you guys can pretend to be astronauts. Or an elf.
Edited, Dec 1st 2010 1:37pm by Jophiel
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
Wonder Gem rdmcandie wrote:
Avatar reminded me of dances with wolves, only this time with more explosions.
I've always heard it's Pocahontas with explosions.
Boom. http://gizmodo.com/5704158/nasa-finds-new-life
Quote:
NASA Finds New Life
Hours before their special news conference today, the cat is out of the bag: NASA has discovered a completely new life form that doesn't share the biological building blocks of anything currently living in planet Earth. This changes everything.
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 ******** All life on Earth is made of six components: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur. Every being, from the smallest amoeba to the largest whale, share the same life stream. Our DNA blocks are all the same.
But not this one. This one is completely different. Discovered in the poisonous Mono Lake, California, this bacteria is made of ******** something that was thought to be completely impossible. While she and other scientists theorized that this could be possible, this is the first discovery. The implications of this discovery are enormous to our understanding of life itself and the possibility of finding beings in other planets that don't have to be like planet Earth.
Hours before their special news conference today, the cat is out of the bag: NASA has discovered a completely new life form that doesn't share the biological building blocks of anything currently living in planet Earth. This changes everything.
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 ******** All life on Earth is made of six components: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur. Every being, from the smallest amoeba to the largest whale, share the same life stream. Our DNA blocks are all the same.
But not this one. This one is completely different. Discovered in the poisonous Mono Lake, California, this bacteria is made of ******** something that was thought to be completely impossible. While she and other scientists theorized that this could be possible, this is the first discovery. The implications of this discovery are enormous to our understanding of life itself and the possibility of finding beings in other planets that don't have to be like planet Earth.
LockeColeMA wrote:
Boom. http://gizmodo.com/5704158/nasa-finds-new-life
Quote:
NASA Finds New Life
Hours before their special news conference today, the cat is out of the bag: NASA has discovered a completely new life form that doesn't share the biological building blocks of anything currently living in planet Earth. This changes everything.
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 ******** All life on Earth is made of six components: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur. Every being, from the smallest amoeba to the largest whale, share the same life stream. Our DNA blocks are all the same.
But not this one. This one is completely different. Discovered in the poisonous Mono Lake, California, this bacteria is made of ******** something that was thought to be completely impossible. While she and other scientists theorized that this could be possible, this is the first discovery. The implications of this discovery are enormous to our understanding of life itself and the possibility of finding beings in other planets that don't have to be like planet Earth.
Hours before their special news conference today, the cat is out of the bag: NASA has discovered a completely new life form that doesn't share the biological building blocks of anything currently living in planet Earth. This changes everything.
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 ******** All life on Earth is made of six components: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur. Every being, from the smallest amoeba to the largest whale, share the same life stream. Our DNA blocks are all the same.
But not this one. This one is completely different. Discovered in the poisonous Mono Lake, California, this bacteria is made of ******** something that was thought to be completely impossible. While she and other scientists theorized that this could be possible, this is the first discovery. The implications of this discovery are enormous to our understanding of life itself and the possibility of finding beings in other planets that don't have to be like planet Earth.
I was just about to post this. They need to cut their budget more, or rename the agency. Since when is space at the bottom of a lake in Cali?
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Shaowstrike the Shady wrote:
They need to cut their budget more, or rename the agency. Since when is space at the bottom of a lake in Cali?
Apparently their announcement is more concerned with how this will redefine the search for life in the universe, as up until now we didn't realize ******* could be a building block.
LockeColeMA wrote:
Shaowstrike the Shady wrote:
They need to cut their budget more, or rename the agency. Since when is space at the bottom of a lake in Cali?
Apparently their announcement is more concerned with how this will redefine the search for life in the universe, as up until now we didn't realize ******* could be a building block.
Still, they should be focusing on how to colonize worlds first. Then they can worry about what random ET lifeform is gonna red-shirt the colonists first.
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LockeColeMA wrote:
Shaowstrike the Shady wrote:
They need to cut their budget more, or rename the agency. Since when is space at the bottom of a lake in Cali?
Apparently their announcement is more concerned with how this will redefine the search for life in the universe, as up until now we didn't realize ******* could be a building block.
It has long been suggested that our search for ET life is hampered by our assumption that all life must be carbon-based or evolve the same way it has on earth. If this discovery does nothing more than give us the tools and the knowledge to start looking for alternative life forms, it's still a huge deal.
BrownDuck wrote:
LockeColeMA wrote:
Shaowstrike the Shady wrote:
They need to cut their budget more, or rename the agency. Since when is space at the bottom of a lake in Cali?
Apparently their announcement is more concerned with how this will redefine the search for life in the universe, as up until now we didn't realize ******* could be a building block.
It has long been suggested that our search for ET life is hampered by our assumption that all life must be carbon-based or evolve the same way it has on earth. If this discovery does nothing more than give us the tools and the knowledge to start looking for alternative life forms, it's still a huge deal.
I may be in the wrong, as I never really look into astrobiology, but I think the idea was to focus on what we KNOW can create life (carbon) and just kinda ignore things that haven't been proven (*************** I think what this discover means is that if we find a planet low on phosphorous, we might still find life - but it'll be ************** Without proper funding, however, I'm not sure if it'll make a big change. Hence this announcement is likely an effort to get said funding, since now there is apparently proof to back up the ******* theory.
LockeColeMA wrote:
Shaowstrike the Shady wrote:
They need to cut their budget more, or rename the agency. Since when is space at the bottom of a lake in Cali?
Apparently their announcement is more concerned with how this will redefine the search for life in the universe, as up until now we didn't realize ******* could be a building block.
Finally a less retarded approach than they previously used, only looking for similar life.
The assumption by so many that our chemical makeup was special rather than just readily availiable was getting kinda old.
Just as Planned.
I've never understood why everyone always assumed that different forms of life were impossible. What makes carbon, etc so special that nothing else could possibly be used in it's place?
Grand Master Leatherworker ThePsychoticO wrote:
I've never understood why everyone always assumed that different forms of life were impossible. What makes carbon, etc so special that nothing else could possibly be used in it's place?
1) Bible said God created life here, doesn't even mention anywhere else
2) Majority of lifeforms here were discovered to be made from carbon
3) ???
4) Profit
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Grand Master Leatherworker ThePsychoticO wrote:
I've never understood why everyone always assumed that different forms of life were impossible. What makes carbon, etc so special that nothing else could possibly be used in it's place?
It's not so much that carbon is special. It's just that all life that we've discovered was carbon based, so we don't know to look for anything else.
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Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
How did you get "forced to accept ************* from "found in a lake in California?" I've yet to find anything even remotely close to them replacing any part of the bacteria with anything. Every source I've hit has labeled this (and explained it) as a discovery.
I stand corrected by your damned edit.
Edit2: The article still has me leaning towards this being more of a discovery. Perhaps more phosphorus was replaced with ******* in the lab, but "Until now a life form using ******* as a building block was only theoretical, but now we know such life exists in Mono Lake." has me thinking that such life actually existed in the lake.
Edited, Dec 2nd 2010 12:31pm by LeWoVoc
Edited, Dec 2nd 2010 12:38pm by LeWoVoc
I stand corrected by your damned edit.
Edit2: The article still has me leaning towards this being more of a discovery. Perhaps more phosphorus was replaced with ******* in the lab, but "Until now a life form using ******* as a building block was only theoretical, but now we know such life exists in Mono Lake." has me thinking that such life actually existed in the lake.
Edited, Dec 2nd 2010 12:31pm by LeWoVoc
Edited, Dec 2nd 2010 12:38pm by LeWoVoc
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Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
Not quite what I'd hoped for but "Its life, Jim, but not as we know it".
"If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders". Carlin.
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