NASA press conference...aliens?

[TheBrauerHour]

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010...robiology.html

Could it be that they have found something?

I guess it is working, or not?


NASA's new mission: Building ties to Muslim world



Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/politi...#ixzz16jcDYfOh

[Takeda Shingen]

On topic, I don't think that this will be much to get excited about. I'll take heat for saying it, but I really think the whole extra-terrestrial thing is just NASA trying to stay relevant in a technology-saturated world.

[TLAM Strike]

I think NASA figured out a way to keep the Mexicans from crossing the border

... oh wait wrong Aliens...

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

I think NASA figured out a way to keep the Mexicans from crossing the border

... oh wait wrong Aliens...

If NASA could do that, they might actually be worth something today.

Kidding! I can see the NASA Fan Club assembling a lynch mob.

If NASA's new mission was to bring ties with Muslims we can only speculate as to if this is a Muslim being. Perhaps it is?

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

If NASA could do that, they might actually be worth something today.

Kidding! I can see the NASA Fan Club assembling a lynch mob.

Naw we don't use lynch mobs; we prefer some sort of ballistic rocket...

[frau kaleun]

Take it for what it's worth:

http://gizmodo.com/5704158/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 arsenic. 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 arsenic, 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.

[Tchocky]

Mono Lake! I love that place

Still think there's a SAVE MONOLAKE bumper sticker on my trumpet case