NASA's LCROSS Spacecraft Discovers Life On Earth 171
Matt_dk writes "On Saturday, Aug. 1, 2009, the LCROSS spacecraft successfully completed its first Earth-look calibration of its science payload. 'The Earth-look was very successful' said Tony Colaprete, LCROSS project scientist. 'The instruments are all healthy and the science teams was able to collect additional data that will help refine our calibrations of the instruments.' During the Earth observations, the spacecraft's spectrometers were able to detect the signatures of the Earth's water, ozone, methane, oxygen, carbon dioxide and possibly vegetation."
An early false-negative had them worried (Score:3, Funny)
Turns out they were just over Detroit.
What gets me.... (Score:5, Funny)
I almost fell out of my chair when I read this
Colonization (Score:5, Funny)
Meanwhile, SETI... (Score:4, Funny)
At the same time, we're still waiting from the SETI's calibration and observation to discover any trace of *Intelligence* on earth.
Re:But is it intelligent? (Score:4, Funny)
NASA' LCROSS Spacecraft Discovers Life On Earth (Score:5, Funny)
Sadly, (Score:5, Funny)
It's life, Jim (Score:3, Funny)
It's life, Jim, just as we know it, just as we know it, Jim.
Beam me sideways, Scotty, nobody on this planet knows which way is up.
Beam me up Scotty!! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Beam me up Scotty!! (Score:5, Funny)
Theres no intelligent live down here!!
Oh, the irony..... ;)
Re:But is it intelligent? (Score:5, Funny)
They're outside of the faraday cage basement you're living in.
Re:Pre-empting the obvious (Score:4, Funny)
2 predictions: * Lots of slashdot users trying to post something witty about why this is a new story * trolls saying how this is everything we should expect and therefore should ignore.
Um, this is Slashdot. That's like betting that a coin toss will be either heads or tails.
Re:An early false-negative had them worried (Score:4, Funny)
I'm offended! If you'd ever actually been to or lived in Detroit you'd know that it's full of rats and cockroaches.
Re:Beam me up Scotty!! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What gets me.... (Score:4, Funny)
We still have vegitation down here? Someone better tell Captain McCrea.
Re:It must be broken then (Score:3, Funny)
Looking for intelligent life on earth. Scanning. Scanning. Scanning...
Segmentation fault. Core dumped.
Re:Colonization (Score:5, Funny)
During the 1960's and 1970's, we sent several men from the Moon to the Earth. Tragically, all were stranded, and none ever returned to the Moon.
Oil? (Score:5, Funny)
detect the signatures of the Earth's water, ozone, methane, oxygen, carbon dioxide and possibly vegetation
What? No oil detector? This thing is useless!
Re:What gets me.... (Score:3, Funny)
So this satalite will be sent out to discover the universes hippys?
Ummmm NO.... Just where the aliens hide their weed...
Re:An early false-negative had them worried (Score:1, Funny)
Turns out they were just over USA.
There, fixed it for you.
Re:Beam me up Scotty!! (Score:5, Funny)
Whew! That was close... (Score:3, Funny)
...if it had found "intelligent life" that would have been a false positive.
Re:Colonization (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Beam me up Scotty!! (Score:3, Funny)
Zargog says that his brother was lynched after he landed in Mississippi - try landing in one of the blue-coloured states!
How about the intelligent life? (Score:1, Funny)
The satellite discovered life on Earth. Fine, we all knew that there is some. Now, if we were only able to positively establish an existence of the intelligent life, that would be even better.
Re:Colonization (Score:2, Funny)
Would that be thinking inside the box?
The UHCD was ditched (Score:3, Funny)