NASA press conference...aliens? - Page 4

Spike88 · 12-02-10, 01:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Oberon

I love that movie.

Dowly · 12-02-10, 06:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Spike88

I love that movie.

Me too.

Oberon · 12-02-10, 08:23 AM

I...erm...really should watch it...

The drop looks cool from what I've seen on the tube though.

Skybird · 12-02-10, 08:43 AM

That movie is a full broadside of biting sarcasm against soap operas and the gun-ho attitude of certain people in the West that it is not really surprising that it flopped in the movies in North America. They felt targetted by it, and right so they did. But it is a good movie, I liked it - if for no other reason than its vitriolic humour.

Many people in Europe also totally misunderstood it, and thought it to be a hailing of fascism and militarism. They completely missed that it is exactly the opposite, wrapped and hidden in sheer sarcasm and exaggeration .

Dowly · 12-02-10, 09:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Skybird

Many people in Europe also totally misunderstood it, and thought it to be a hailing of fascism and militarism. They completely missed that it is exactly the opposite, wrapped and hidden in sheer sarcasm and exaggeration .

This.

frau kaleun · 12-02-10, 12:31 PM

Take it for what it's worth:

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

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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 · 12-02-10, 12:55 PM

Mono Lake! I love that place

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

TLAM Strike · 12-02-10, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Oberon

I...erm...really should watch it...

The drop looks cool from what I've seen on the tube though.

Then read the book. Its lightyears superior to the movie.

In fact the "real" Starship troops movie is "Aliens" in my opinion. That film has far more in common with the book than that movie.

Oberon · 12-02-10, 01:52 PM

I'll say it before anyone else does.

"It's life Jim, but not as we know it."

It's a helluva jump and will definitely affect how NASA looks for life on planets, but it's something that many sci-fi writers and readers have considered likely for years. Quite frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if lifeforms existed in gas giants and the like, but it could be a while before we figure it all out.

Oberon · 12-02-10, 02:04 PM

Yup, Frau, that's what it's about.

Diopos · 12-02-10, 02:12 PM

Ok! Arsenic can replace Phosphorous. Another candidate is Silica replacing Carbon. Let me see ... The Alliens are semiconducting silicon chips!

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Oberon · 12-02-10, 02:43 PM

TLAM Strike · 12-02-10, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Diopos

Ok! Arsenic can replace Phosphorous. Another candidate is Silica replacing Carbon. Let me see ... The Alliens are semiconducting silicon chips!

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Right on the money...

read about 2 pages down, the except from The Lost Worlds of 2001

Growler · 12-02-10, 04:30 PM

Wait... there's a new life form on this very planet, one that is entirely counter to everything we thought we knew about biology, and it hasn't been weaponized or nuked yet?

I can say this, honestly: Carl Sagan would totally have LOVED this.

TLAM Strike · 12-02-10, 04:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Growler

Wait... there's a new life form on this very planet, one that is entirely counter to everything we thought we knew about biology, and it hasn't been weaponized or nuked yet?

I heard this company is interested in them for their Bio-Weapons Division...

12-02-10, 08:43 AM	#49
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,696 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	That movie is a full broadside of biting sarcasm against soap operas and the gun-ho attitude of certain people in the West that it is not really surprising that it flopped in the movies in North America. They felt targetted by it, and right so they did. But it is a good movie, I liked it - if for no other reason than its vitriolic humour. Many people in Europe also totally misunderstood it, and thought it to be a hailing of fascism and militarism. They completely missed that it is exactly the opposite, wrapped and hidden in sheer sarcasm and exaggeration . __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

12-02-10, 12:55 PM	#52
Tchocky Navy Seal Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,874 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	Mono Lake! I love that place Still think there's a SAVE MONOLAKE bumper sticker on my trumpet case __________________ [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

12-02-10, 02:12 PM	#56
Diopos Ace of the Deep Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Athens, the original one. Posts: 1,226 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	Ok! Arsenic can replace Phosphorous. Another candidate is Silica replacing Carbon. Let me see ... The Alliens are semiconducting silicon chips! . __________________ - Oh God! They're all over the place! CRASH DIVE!!! - Ehm... we can't honey. We're in the car right now. - What?... er right... Doesn't matter! We'll give it a try anyway!

12-02-10, 04:30 PM	#59
Growler A long way from the sea Join Date: May 2005 Location: Iowa Posts: 1,913 Downloads: 21 Uploads: 0	Wait... there's a new life form on this very planet, one that is entirely counter to everything we thought we knew about biology, and it hasn't been weaponized or nuked yet? I can say this, honestly: Carl Sagan would totally have LOVED this. __________________ At Fiddler’s Green, where seamen true When here they’ve done their duty The bowl of grog shall still renew And pledge to love and beauty.

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12-02-10, 08:23 AM	#48
Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	I...erm...really should watch it... The drop looks cool from what I've seen on the tube though.

12-02-10, 01:52 PM	#54
Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	I'll say it before anyone else does. "It's life Jim, but not as we know it." It's a helluva jump and will definitely affect how NASA looks for life on planets, but it's something that many sci-fi writers and readers have considered likely for years. Quite frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if lifeforms existed in gas giants and the like, but it could be a while before we figure it all out.

12-02-10, 02:04 PM	#55
Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	Yup, Frau, that's what it's about.

12-02-10, 02:43 PM	#57
Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20