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    Richard tea
    Registered Users Posts: 3,597 ✭✭✭Richard tea


    Promac wrote: »
    http://www.pcworld.com/article/212000/are_the_aliens_coming_nasa_to_hold_press_conference_on_major_astrobiology_discovery.html


    If it doesnt shoot lazers with its gun I aint interested. Bacteria is crap.:(


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    KeithM89_old
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    Everyone laughed at me when i built that nuclear bunker. Now whose laughing... :)


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    AnonoBoy
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    Ah they'll have found protein or plankton on another planet.

    Nothing that's going to lay eggs down your throat and burst through your chest or be a really hot chick who wants to ride everyone or a cute little squashed up midget with a light-up finger.

    Nothing cool in other words.


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    chicken fingers
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    philistines


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    #6
    Sticky_Fingers
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    Excellent, another NASA announcement to get us all excited like their "exceptional object in our cosmic neighbourhood" snorefest from a few weeks ago.


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    Nodin
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    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Ah they'll have found protein or plankton on another planet.

    Nothing that's going to lay eggs down your throat and burst through your chest or be a really hot chick who wants to ride everyone or a cute little squashed up midget with a light-up finger.

    Nothing cool in other words.

    If the latter two breed, it'll be like a German porno crossed with a horror movie....


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    AnonoBoy
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    Nodin wrote: »
    If the latter two breed, it'll be like a German porno crossed with a horror movie....

    PM sent. ;)


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    bonzodog2
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    Let me guess, you have that movie ?


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    admiralofthefleet
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    NAKK NAKK NAKK


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    FreudianSlippers
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    Mary Voytek, director, Astrobiology Program, NASA Headquarters, Washington

    Felisa Wolfe-Simon, NASA astrobiology research fellow, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, Calif.

    Pamela Conrad, astrobiologist, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.

    Steven Benner, distinguished fellow, Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, Gainesville, Fla.

    James Elser, professor, Arizona State University, Tempe


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    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    Let me guess, you have that movie ?

    That would be the gist of the joke yes.

    Unfortunately for you though, I don't actually have the movie (if such a thing exists). Sorry to disappoint - you can stop PMing me now guys!


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    anathem
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    Nodin wrote: »
    If the latter two breed, it'll be like a German porno crossed with a horror movie....

    It's porn, Nodin, but not as we know it.


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    FreudianSlippers
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    After the last NASA announcement I wouldn't get my hopes up.

    My guess is that they'll discuss the findings of the Cassini probe - which just discovered that Saturn's moon Rhea is rich in oxygen, which is unheard of before and has massive implications on astrobiology.


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    citizen_p
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    my guess is a single celled organism


    basically a germ, ie. NOT an advanced race with spaceships, anal probes, and a fascination with mowing fields of wheat in strange patterns.

    also the thing better not understand english......like every fooking sci fi series/ film going.
    stargate, all planets and people speak english because they all came from earth. FFS they dont even speak english all over the earth. also the fact they ony visit one little village on each planet to sum up its entire culture grrrr

    /continues off topic rant


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    chin_grin
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    Mousey- wrote: »
    my guess is a single celled organism


    basically a germ, ie. NOT an advanced race with spaceships, anal probes,


    AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW! <puts back on trousers>


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    FreudianSlippers
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    io9 wrote:
    NASA is bringing together a geologist, an oceanographer, a biologist, and an ecologist for a press conference on Thursday to talk about an astrobiology discovery that "will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life." Yeah, this could be major.

    Blogger Jason Kottke did some inspired sleuthing regarding what Thursday's press conference might be about. He discovered the expertises of the various people involved include the interaction of geology and life on alien planets (specifically Mars), photosynthesis using arsenic, Saturn's moon Titan as an early Earth environment, and the chemistry of life, including in places without carbon, water, or oxygen.

    Taking that all together and combined with the current blitz of news from NASA's Cassini probe around Saturn, Kottke guesses the announcement might have something to do with the discovery of arsenic on Titan and, quite possibly, some primitive bacterial form of life using it for photosynthesis.

    Considering NASA's claim that this will impact our search for alien life, I'd have to figure this has something to do with expanding the definition of "life as we know it", suggesting more elements than we previously thought possible can be used as the raw materials for life. All this, of course, is just speculation - we'll be listening in to the press conference on Thursday and have the news for you as it breaks.

    "will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life" probably definitely means they have not yet found extraterrestrial life.


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    Terry
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    My lodger just creamed himself.
    He had just stated that this is proof of the alien bases on the dark side of the Moon.


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    FreudianSlippers
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    Terry wrote: »
    My lodger just creamed himself.
    He had just stated that this is proof of the alien bases on the dark side of the Moon.
    I was just reading about that on Above Top Secret. :D


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    iamstop
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,820 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    why is it on a PC World website?

    https://open.spotify.com/album/69JKwCcZGdLqX4Upj3DwP7



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    #21
    smk89
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    I wonder if these aliens have heard about Jesus?


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    Mint Sauce
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    Always prefered 'Alien' my self.


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    old_aussie
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    Nodin wrote: »
    If the latter two breed, it'll be like a German porno crossed with a horror movie....

    How would you know anything about that?:rolleyes:


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    JONJO THE MISER
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭JONJO THE MISER


    Am :eek: sorry rescue me is just about to start.


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    #25
    iamstop
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,820 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YskhRbGPt2k

    https://open.spotify.com/album/69JKwCcZGdLqX4Upj3DwP7



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    #26
    Sticky_Fingers
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    Terry wrote: »
    My lodger just creamed himself.
    He had just stated that this is proof of the alien bases on the dark side of the Moon.
    What you should do Terry is reluctantly agree and tell him that someone posted a link on the NASA message boards to leaked documents but the thread was taken down by a mod because it was unsubstantiated (or they are undercover NWO shills, whatever he is more likely to believe). I bet the guy will go mental looking for the illusive document while you sit back and enjoy the show.

    Just imagine the look on his face when NASA announce they have only discovered that microscopic life may be possible on Titan, the poor fella will be crestfallen:p


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    Promac
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    I'll be surprised if it isn't the presence of carbon dioxide on titan (implying some kind of metabolism) and I'd be amazed if it was some kind of actual life.

    It's clearly not going to be anything intelligent or it wouldn't be on a PC world website about about being announced by NASA.


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    FreudianSlippers
    Registered Users Posts: 20,397 ✭✭✭✭FreudianSlippers


    Promac wrote: »
    I'll be surprised if it isn't the presence of carbon dioxide on titan (implying some kind of metabolism) and I'd be amazed if it was some kind of actual life.

    It's clearly not going to be anything intelligent or it wouldn't be on a PC world website about about being announced by NASA.
    Doubt that. Oxygen on Rhea and Arsenic on Titan are much bigger deals.


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    Promac
    Registered Users Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭Promac


    titan/rhea - these things all look the same to me.

    But isn't CO2 more interesting than O2? O2 would mean we could potentially go there and have something to breathe but CO2 would imply something is already doing it.


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    bonerm
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    This news is going to mean massive competition for jobs in the service industry and public sector.


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    Duggy747
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    bonerm wrote: »
    This news is going to mean massive competition for jobs in the service industry and public sector.

    Then I'm emigrating to space if there's jobs out there.


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