NASA makes 'astrobiology discovery,' schedules press conference for Thursday to discuss alien life[views:7203][posts:70]________________________________________ [Dec 2,2010 2:09pm - Kadoog-a-go-go ""] It is sort of awesome, 'cause it finally proves what we should have assumed in the first place: life on other planets wouldn't need the same shit Earthlings need to survive. Blah. |
| _____________________________________ [Dec 2,2010 2:12pm - the_reverend ""] go thermophiles. |
| _____________________________________ [Dec 2,2010 2:12pm - the_reverend ""] go chemophiles. |
| _____________________________________ [Dec 2,2010 2:13pm - the_reverend ""] http://www.theonion.com/articles/universe-...ire-li,18556/?utm_source=recentnews |
| __________________________________________ [Dec 2,2010 2:17pm - FuckIsMySignature ""] the_reverend said:http://www.theonion.com/articles/universe-admits-to-wronging-area-man-his-entire-li,18556/?utm_source=recentnews [img] |
| _____________________________________ [Dec 2,2010 2:17pm - the_reverend ""] bennyhillifier |
| _____________________________________ [Dec 2,2010 2:21pm - SkinSandwich ""] Big deal, microbes can live off of poison. Hitler took poison and he is still alive. This is nothing new. yeah, that cunt on the news conference was a cunty cunt that cunts. |
| ________________________________ [Dec 2,2010 3:03pm - Doomkid ""] Y'all are lame: this is actually pretty damn cool. Not only does this give us the opportunities to expand our rubric in searching for life but we could possibly create bio-energy differently, process heavy metals at contaminated sites. And my favorite: create a TRULY sterile environment! if these bacteria can really subsist only on arsenic then it might be possible to engineer organisms and observe their interactions, evolution, whatever... totally independent of most known life, since it wouldn't be able to survive in that environment. But ya know, still a new discovery. If they still absolutely need some phosphorus then its much less exciting. |
| ___________________________________ [Dec 2,2010 3:06pm - arilliusbm ""] NASA is a smoke show; or rather, to rephrase (assuming you're thinking NASA is a hot chick): NASA likes to blow smoke in the air. |
| __________________________________ [Dec 2,2010 3:06pm - arktouros ""] yeah this is one of those discoveries that gets to biology's roots, almost like evolution or DNA. does this bacteria have any fire-shitting relatives? |
| _____________________________________ [Dec 2,2010 3:06pm - the_reverend ""] what strange calories their are in arsenic-phalic bateria. |
| __________________________________ [Dec 2,2010 3:07pm - arktouros ""] was in the cold war too BRO. |
| ________________________________ [Dec 2,2010 3:12pm - Doomkid ""] the_reverend said:what strange calories their are in arsenic-phalic bateria. You win. |
| ___________________________________ [Dec 2,2010 4:17pm - Alx_Casket ""] Newer studies are showing that organisms that survive in arsenic lakes are more likely to be homosexual. |
| _______________________________________ [Dec 2,2010 4:30pm - DestroyYouAlot ""] Man, what a letdALL GLORY TO THE HYPNO-ORGANISM |
| ___________________________________ [Dec 2,2010 4:35pm - immortal13 ""] Kadoog-a-go-go said:It is sort of awesome, 'cause it finally proves what we should have assumed in the first place: life on other planets wouldn't need the same shit Earthlings need to survive. Blah. I hate it when people say there can't be any life on another planet because the atmosphere couldn't support life. Yeah, maybe it can't support human life, but how the fuck would they know what extraterrestrials need to survive? |
| __________________________________ [Dec 2,2010 4:52pm - arktouros ""] NASA's geobiologist Pamela Conrad thinks that the discovery is huge and "phenomenal," comparing it to the Star Trek episode in which the Enterprise crew finds Horta, a silicon-based alien life form that can't be detected with tricorders because it wasn't carbon-based. It's like saying that we may be looking for new life in the wrong places with the wrong methods. Indeed, NASA tweeted that this discovery "will change how we search for life elsewhere in the Universe." http://gizmodo.com/5704158/ star trek wins again. |
| __________________________________________ [Dec 2,2010 4:54pm - FuckIsMySignature ""] shhhh dont let wren know. |
| __________________________________________ [Dec 2,2010 4:55pm - FuckIsMySignature ""] this is all just further propoganda to fuel the anti-carbon climate change whore agenda. anything to get their new tax across. |
| ________________________________ [Dec 2,2010 6:16pm - Doomkid ""] arktouros said:NASA's geobiologist Pamela Conrad thinks that the discovery is huge and "phenomenal," comparing it to the Star Trek episode in which the Enterprise crew finds Horta, a silicon-based alien life form that can't be detected with tricorders because it wasn't carbon-based. It's like saying that we may be looking for new life in the wrong places with the wrong methods. Indeed, NASA tweeted that this discovery "will change how we search for life elsewhere in the Universe." http://gizmodo.com/5704158/ star trek wins again. The end of this press conference was nerdtastic, the lead author actually started talking technically about her experimental methods and then this woman busts out the Star Trek. |
| _________________________________ [Dec 2,2010 10:44pm - reimroc ""] reimroc said:i really hope this isn't a let down. sure is NASA in here |