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frau kaleun 11-30-10 09:33 AM

http://files.g4tv.com/ImageDb3/30981...calrissian.jpg

:woot: :yeah: :D

Dowly 11-30-10 09:36 AM

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Originally Posted by frau kaleun (Post 1544117)

Fixed. :03:

Blood_splat 11-30-10 09:44 AM

http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/7...crab_super.jpg

GoldenRivet 11-30-10 09:46 AM

ewww

Oberon 11-30-10 09:48 AM

http://alsolikelife.com/shooting/wp-...s_large_05.jpg

frau kaleun 11-30-10 09:52 AM

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...romoposter.jpg

Much more better. :yep:

TLAM Strike 11-30-10 09:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Blood_splat (Post 1544127)

Kill it with fire!

http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/1...amethrower.gif

Fish 11-30-10 10:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Stealth Hunter (Post 1544044)
Apparently, it's going to be broadcast on national television.

http://www.thatsfamous.com/6698-nasa...ife-discovery/

Something big is going on. Apparently, one of the folks in attendance is an expert on Saturn's moon Titan...:hmmm:


Pamela Conrad is an expert on Mars.

GoldenRivet 11-30-10 11:00 AM

http://www.slashgear.com/nasa-holdin...life-30116872/

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The geeks over at Kottke.org did some digging on the participants in the conference and found out a few details that hint at what we are looking at for Thursday.
Pamela Conrad is a geobiologist who wrote about life on Mars.

Felisa Wolf-Simon is an oceanographer and has written on photosynthesis using arsenic.

Steven Benner is a biologist that is part of the “Team Titan” program studying the largest moon of Saturn.

James Elser is an ecologist that is part of a NASA-funded program dubbed Follow the Elements.

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Take all of those factoids and mix them up and something very interesting emerges. Could NASA be revealing the existence of some sort of life on Titan that uses arsenic for photosynthesis?
Based on this they are probably going to make some sort of revision to their ideas as to which elements are or are not required to sustain life.

and a room full of newsies will all breathe a collective sigh of disappointment.

Herr-Berbunch 11-30-10 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by ReFaN (Post 1543985)
im going to get a Tinfoil hat.

http://markc1.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83...ddc8970c-800wi

http://rlv.zcache.com/my_other_hat_i...53qw9u_400.jpg

And to make it seem nicer...

http://www.freakingnews.com/pictures...Hat--66733.jpg

razark 11-30-10 11:36 AM

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Originally Posted by GoldenRivet (Post 1544178)
Pamela Conrad is a geobiologist who wrote about life on Mars.
...
Steven Benner is a biologist that is part of the “Team Titan” program studying the largest moon of Saturn.

I find the inclusion of a Mars expert and a Titan expert interesting. Points me more in a general direction rather than something specific.

GoldenRivet 11-30-10 11:43 AM

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Originally Posted by razark (Post 1544202)
I find the inclusion of a Mars expert and a Titan expert interesting. Points me more in a general direction rather than something specific.

exactly.

Probably going to release some new hypothesis that our search for biological organisms in the universe has been too focused, and needs to adapt to expanding and changing theories on what environments can support life.

One scenario is that they managed to get some sort of small plant organism to conduct photosynthesis using arsenic in place of the usual life sustaining compounds as we know them.

based on this, they will probably have the titan and mars groups give speeches about how mars contains certain elements that could behave similarly in those environments thereby creating organic compounds even if non-earthlike conditions exist.

thats what my money is on

Dowly 11-30-10 12:23 PM

Don't think it's going to be anything special, just a "heads up" for the general public about stuff that has been known for some time already in the space circles. :hmmm:

Penguin 11-30-10 12:30 PM

I support the theory that some revelations about life-supporting environments in our close distance will be made.

2 days to go - where's wikileaks when we need them?

TheBrauerHour 11-30-10 08:25 PM

...and here I am thinking that they would just stand at the podium and say "Sorry guys, we are all out of money. We are turning SETI off."

But finding little green men would be cool too.

Gargamel 11-30-10 08:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Penguin (Post 1544043)
I will be one of the nerds who will actually tune in and watch this, could be interesting.

me too!

NASA doesn't usually get all melodramatic.

TLAM Strike 11-30-10 09:13 PM

I'm hoping it goes something like this:

"Ladies and Gentlemen; the men we sent to the Moon weren't the same ones that came back..."

Either that or that the X-37B fell through John Crichton's wormhole.

TarJak 12-01-10 05:45 AM

V...ger! V...ger!

I'l wait until it comes out on DVD, unless we really are being invaded, in which case I am ready to serve our new alien masters.:zzz:

Herr-Berbunch 12-01-10 07:59 AM

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Originally Posted by TheBrauerHour (Post 1544512)
...and here I am thinking that they would just stand at the podium and say "Sorry guys, we are all out of money. We are turning SETI off."

But finding little green men would be cool too.

Close, it'll be something like - "You were going to cut our funding, but look what we've JUST found, we must invest further!" - call me cynical :yep:

Sailor Steve 12-01-10 03:03 PM

You're cynical.




You may also be right.




But hey, you told me too.
:rotfl2:


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