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Author:  ProfessorF [ Tue Nov 30, 2010 9:14 pm ]
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Not in The News forum, cos it's not news yet.
But...

Quote:
Dwayne Brown
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1726
dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov

Cathy Weselby
Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
650-604-2791
cathy.weselby@nasa.gov
Nov. 29, 2010

MEDIA ADVISORY : M10-167


NASA Sets News Conference on Astrobiology Discovery; Science Journal Has Embargoed Details Until 2 p.m. EST On Dec. 2


WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 2, to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe.

The news conference will be held at the NASA Headquarters auditorium at 300 E St. SW, in Washington. It will be broadcast live on NASA Television and streamed on the agency's website at http://www.nasa.gov.

Participants are:
- 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

Media representatives may attend the conference or ask questions by phone or from participating NASA locations. To obtain dial-in information, journalists must send their name, affiliation and telephone number to Steve Cole at stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov or call 202-358-0918 by noon Dec. 2.

For NASA TV streaming video and downlink information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv



For more information about NASA astrobiology activities, visit:

http://astrobiology.nasa.gov



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http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/nov/HQ_M10-167_Astrobiology.html

Dum-dum-DERRRRR!
Or not.

Wait and see.

Author:  adidan [ Tue Nov 30, 2010 9:18 pm ]
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Frakin' cool.

Author:  Paul1965 [ Wed Dec 01, 2010 12:10 pm ]
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Interesting. I just hope it's not going to be a letdown along the lines of the iTunes/Beatles debacle.

Author:  adidan [ Wed Dec 01, 2010 1:26 pm ]
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I now have a timer set on my phone for this. :D

Author:  pcernie [ Wed Dec 01, 2010 2:01 pm ]
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adidan wrote:
Frakin' cool.


+1, well, I hope so :)

Author:  pcernie [ Wed Dec 01, 2010 3:22 pm ]
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Haven't clicked any of the links above, but erm...

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... n-USA.html

Just lol at the tone of that :lol:

Author:  paulzolo [ Wed Dec 01, 2010 3:48 pm ]
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Paul1965 wrote:
Interesting. I just hope it's not going to be a letdown along the lines of the iTunes/Beatles debacle.


John, Paul, George and Ringo (and the other ones - you know, Sutcliffe and Best) are from Titan. You heard it here first.

Author:  steve74 [ Wed Dec 01, 2010 5:06 pm ]
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pcernie wrote:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3253913/NASA-researchers-find-life-in-poisonous-arsenic-lake-in-USA.html

By PAUL SUTHERLAND, Sun Spaceman

:lol: :lol:

Full time job, that?!!

Author:  leeds_manc [ Wed Dec 01, 2010 5:48 pm ]
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I want all Sun journalists who CAPITALISE the important-sounding words to DIE in a pool of their own PATRONISING ARSEHOLENESS.

Author:  ProfessorF [ Thu Dec 02, 2010 2:30 pm ]
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http://gizmodo.com/5704158/


OMFG.
That is all.

Author:  pcernie [ Thu Dec 02, 2010 3:11 pm ]
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ProfessorF wrote:
http://gizmodo.com/5704158/


OMFG.
That is all.


For those who can't view the link for whatever reason:

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. While she and other scientists theorized that this could be possible, this is the first time that this has been confirmed. 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. 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.

No details have been disclosed about the origin or nature of this new life form. We will know more today at 2pm EST but, while this life hasn't been found in another planet, this discovery does indeed change everything we know about biology. I don't know about you, but I've not been so excited about a bacteria since my STD tests came back clean. [NOS—In Dutch]

:D

Author:  jonbwfc [ Thu Dec 02, 2010 3:53 pm ]
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pcernie wrote:
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.


In summary : We're all going to die.

Author:  ProfessorF [ Thu Dec 02, 2010 3:55 pm ]
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Nah. They might too. We have the common cold. And salt water. Both are lethal to aliens, y'know.

Author:  Spreadie [ Thu Dec 02, 2010 4:04 pm ]
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ProfessorF wrote:
Nah. They might too. We have the common cold. And salt water. Both are lethal to aliens, y'know.

Yeah, but the common cold still gives them enough time to kick your ass before they die.

Author:  brataccas [ Thu Dec 02, 2010 4:09 pm ]
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its the bacteria of an american, it was found in usa so it further proves that americans are aliens, no wonder they act all overly eccentric etc

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