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NASA to make an announcement shortly on ET life..

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Elsie N said:
Terrestrial life is slowly getting to a point where we can continue to exist even after earth is no longer habitable.
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Is there some place on Earth that is "no longer habitable"? Is there any indication that the Earth will be, "no longer habitable", any time in the next million years or next billion years? I know that probably the Earth will be "no longer habitable", in 5.5 billion years, when the Sun goes Super Nova.
 
Noah Kadner said:
Hopefully one that can teach us how not to wipe ourselves out- because we're doing pretty well at that so far...
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"because we're doing pretty well at that so far...?" Population currently 6.8 billion probably over 20 billion in our lifetime.
 
To be perfectly honest I wouldn't be surprised in the least bit if it happened now. I would be happy, ecstatic, I'd jump up and down for a few weeks straight, but somehow I feel confident "we" will find evidence of life in other planets before I die. [I was born in 1979]

It doesn't seem this isn't "it" however. Not yet. At least I'm not gonna get my hoes up. I'll just "let it happen." :)

Adrian Frearson said:
I don't know if this has been posted yet, but it looks like the press conference will be about this:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/8174040/Life-as-we-dont-know-it-discovery-could-prove-existence-of-aliens.html

Any of you that live near to Mono Lake can go and meet your alien neighbours
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Ohhhhhh...

Thanks Adrian.

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I am not sure I agree with the logic, or maybe I am just not satisfied with the scope of the announcement. I heard about this before, but I can't see how it can be derived it came from somewhere else. I guess they aren't saying that. Sure, alien alright! But not extra terrestrial, which is what we would get really excited about. I suppose this is just people playing socially dumb to allow a frenzy to build for publicity, perhaps combined with some of that actual good ol' "book-smart people-dumb" personality trait.

We know life can plausibly have taken place in other worlds. In fact it is illogical to say it hasn't. We also know it doesn't have to be just like what we are used to here in earth. So this would only be an announcement to expand the spectrum of places everyone should be looking at, perhaps in a chemically specific way.

But you could take it a step (or a million) further. For all we know rocks are alive. For all we know it is us who just don't know how to notice they are because we have too limited of a concept of what life can be like. Sure it sounds like a massive exaggeration of the concept, but the point I am trying to make here is that "we" want to hear about life in other places... we want to have our minds blown by finding out that "we" -life on earth- are not alone. Uber-weird life on Earth will always be just a minuscule fraction as cool as find "boring" life in an other planet.

Ok, so we should now look in more than just watery worlds, more than just carbon rich worlds... great. Makes sense. But it sorta feels like a big collective "duh moment" if anything. And unfortunately the wording of the announcement seems to fit...

...no ET just yet. :badputer:
 
Ok, so we should now look in more than just watery worlds, more than just carbon rich worlds... great. Makes sense.
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Just speculation, but I wonder if this release is in any way connected with the findings on Titan and maybe a way to justify research in that direction.
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/titan20100603.html

Imagine if our first discovery of ET is going to be farting Titans:puke:
 
George Butterfield said:
Is there some place on Earth that is "no longer habitable"? Is there any indication that the Earth will be, "no longer habitable", any time in the next million years or next billion years? I know that probably the Earth will be "no longer habitable", in 5.5 billion years, when the Sun goes Super Nova.
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The world was once populated with dinosaurs. Then the earth became uninhabitable for them. You can't get Brontosaurus burgers anymore.
 
mikkowilson posted this on dvxuser, i think it should also be in this thread
... holy freaking crap its amazing

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.
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LINK HERE: http://gizmodo.com/5704158/nasa-finds-new-life
 
OK. So not that exciting. NASA, stop the hype. Get back to doing stuff again.
 
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