Nasa will announce that it found life on Titan

[pauldun170]

on Thursday.

[pauldun170]

either that or they found a real cool looking combination of rock\gas\ stuff

[Particle Man]

Igloos

[Homeslice]

ermkay

[Particle Man]

ermkay

No. Igloos.

[pauldun170]

ermkay

No. Igloos.

I think he is talking in secret spy language so you'll need to flip it abit.

ermkay = kayerm

Kayerm Igloos has been found on Titan

[Homeslice]

source?

[pauldun170]

source?

NASA - Thursday

I already said it....
jerk

[CasterTroy]

:lol

[KSGregman]

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2010/M10-110.html

[derf]

1. Pamela Conrad (a geobiologist) was the primary author of a 2009 paper on geology and life on Mars

2. Felisa Wolfe-Simon (an oceanographer) has written extensively on photosynthesis using arsenic recently (she worked on the team mentioned in this article)

3. Steven Benner (a biologist) is on the "Titan Team" at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory; they're looking at Titan (Saturn's largest moon) as an early-Earth-like chemical environment. This is likely related to the Cassini mission.

4. James Elser (an ecologist) is involved with a NASA-funded astrobiology program called Follow the Elements, which emphasizes looking at the chemistry of environments where life evolves (and not just looking at water or carbon or oxygen).

So, if I had to guess at what NASA is going to reveal on Thursday, I'd say that they've discovered arsenic on Titan and maybe even detected chemical evidence of bacteria utilizing it for photosynthesis (by following the elements). Or something like that

..

[Homeslice]

NASA - Thursday

I already said it....
jerk

lol..

fag

probably just "we found another planet with the right size, density, atmospheric composition, and distance from its sun to POSSIBLY support life" .........Whoah, stop the press!

[askmrjesus]

source?

Of Igloos?

Snow, dumbass.

What the fuck did you think they built them out of, Waffles?

JC

[EpyonXero]

Would Skynet becoming self-aware count as "life in space?"

[smileyman]

Great extraterrestrial life but the only thing it can do for us is give us a cold.

[Rangerscott]

Not sure if it's been said already but when are they announcing this? Hope its hot naked alien women.

[ontwo]

Not sure if it's been said already but when are they announcing this? Hope its hot naked alien women.

This

[Particle Man]

Of Igloos?

Snow, dumbass.

What the fuck did you think they built them out of, Waffles?

JC

:lol

[smileyman]

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTPxZMQsToVNMbkq9o5P5ud11uqp3-Ra9EjLKgc-GzOVBMgTYEW

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR6_JXrHf_Tvb-LDPqnu8nYo9BPM25Cd5OnWpr2OQAxd8THSOv5KA

[Particle Man]

I approve of Orion Slave Girls.

[Dave]

I approve of Orion Slave Girls.

Dibs on diora baird!

[Homeslice]

Well, so much for that.

[pauldun170]

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/12/02/5564852-life-as-we-dont-know-it-on-earth

[Homeslice]

So, arsenic can take the place of phosphorus in cells...........But could those cells have originated in a phosphorus-free environment? Unless that question in answered, the idea of arsenic-based life is unproven.

[pauldun170]

So, arsenic can take the place of phosphorus in cells...........But could those cells have originated in a phosphorus-free environment? Unless that question in answered, the idea of arsenic-based life is unproven.

True...

[Papa_Complex]

I jumped into the middle of the press conference but apparently they took microbes and forced them to assimilate arsenic in their code, by putting them in an arsenic environment, with no phosphorus, that otherwise had everything that they needed to survive. They state that at least one of the arsenide proteins occurs spontaneously at room temperature, which comes from work done in the 1980s, rather than being a new finding.

No ETs.

[Rangerscott]

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/12/02/5564852-life-as-we-dont-know-it-on-earth

She sounds like a 1st grade teacher reading a book.

[Particle Man]

Figures.

[Dave]

wasnt there an old star trek episode about this? or was it silicon?

[Particle Man]

wasnt there an old star trek episode about this? or was it silicon?

Horta. Silicon.

[Papa_Complex]

Horta. Silicon.

Even mentioned it in the press conference.

[Particle Man]

Too bad their microbes don't look like big pan-pizzas

[Dave]

hrmm

[AquaPython]

hrmm
best picture of the day.

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