NASA Has A "Huge Announcement" To Make

[mapuc]

First some words from me-I said to my self I'll stay low on posting things about space and conspiracy about space

When I read this article in IFL I said to my self-I have to post this here.

http://www.iflscience.com/nasa-annou...-watch-it-live

Markus

[Rhodes]

I liked this comment:

"I bet they finally found waldo!" And thought of this one: They finally found our overlord, Cthulhu! All hail!

[Gargamel]

I believe I've been reading they have begun to be able to get spectrometry of atmospheres of exoplanets. Maybe they found one with similar conditions to Earth.

Which would be very cool, considering one thing I read yesterday stated there are no known naturally occurring processes, other than life, that create Oxygen (In a free gaseous form). I haven't checked in on that, but off the top off my head I can't think of any process that would, other than plant respiration.

So if they were able to get a spectrometry of an atmosphere, and it showed oxygen in sufficient quantities, then that would imply a really damn good chance of life.

[Gargamel]

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One thing I HATE about the IFLS site is the ad system they use, it's nothing more than click bait bull dung that is everything IFLS is opposed to.

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[Jimbuna]

The burning question being....Is the moon made of cheddar or edam?

[Schroeder]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

The burning question being....Is the moon made of cheddar or edam?

Neither nor or do you think Adolf the Small would build his hidden bases on foreign cheese? It's German cheese of course and any other claim is pure propaganda.

[ikalugin]

Secretely I wish it would be about NASA developing the FTL drive physics and sharing the basic principles. Then we could have another space race.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Schroeder

Neither nor or do you think Adolf the Small would build his hidden bases on foreign cheese? It's German cheese of course and any other claim is pure propaganda.

I can't think of a German cheese without a Google search

[Schroeder]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

I can't think of a German cheese without a Google search

There are some but I don't think there is one that would look like the moon. But that is just part of keeping the bases secret as no one would expect the moon to be of German cheese.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Gargamel

I believe I've been reading they have begun to be able to get spectrometry of atmospheres of exoplanets. Maybe they found one with similar conditions to Earth.

Which would be very cool, considering one thing I read yesterday stated there are no known naturally occurring processes, other than life, that create Oxygen (In a free gaseous form). I haven't checked in on that, but off the top off my head I can't think of any process that would, other than plant respiration.

So if they were able to get a spectrometry of an atmosphere, and it showed oxygen in sufficient quantities, then that would imply a really damn good chance of life.

And a good chance this newly found mud ball is just as screwed up as this mud ball we are stomping on.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

The burning question being....Is the moon made of cheddar or edam?

[Wolferz]

The first concern, I would think is, does the planet have a core similar to Earth. In order for any planet to have a snowball's chance of producing life, it would need a magnetosphere to shield it from the solar winds of its star. Otherwise any new life would be microwaved to a crisp before it even got started.

[mapuc]

After I had postet this thread and the link, I closed my computer.

After I was thinking about this announcement and I came up with two scenarios

scenario 1

At NASA press room

Some leader from NASA speaking

It is so great we have found a planet equal to our own-Oxygen, CO2 etc and the planet have the same size as our, same distance to their sun, as our planet and their sun is like ours

jump 2-3 days ahead

Same person standing in NASAs press room
I'm so ashame. it turned out Kepler was looking to wards our own planet-We down know how this could happen.

Scenario 2

We have found a Earth like planet-with CO? and oxygen, same distance to their sun, same size as our planet etc

Markus

[Betonov]

Originally Posted by ikalugin

Secretely I wish it would be about NASA developing the FTL drive physics and sharing the basic principles. Then we could have another space race.

FTL is easy. Relatively.
It's powering it that's the development block.

Another space race would be lovely though.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Schroeder

There are some but I don't think there is one that would look like the moon. But that is just part of keeping the bases secret as no one would expect the moon to be of German cheese.

Well, NASA did get to the moon with a fair bit of help from a certain German, so....