Curious NASA Pre-Announcement

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Curious NASA Pre-Announcement 286

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @03:14PM from the phone-gnome dept.

CrtxReavr was one of a small avalanche of readers to let us know about a press conference NASA scheduled for Thursday at 2pm to discuss an "astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life." I've heard rumors ranging from "proof of life on Titan" to "first contact," depending on how optimistic/crazy you are.

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Mmmmm. Seafood. (Score:4, Funny)

by oldspewey ( 1303305 ) writes: on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @03:16PM (#34392672)

If there is life swimming in a big ocean under the ice of Europa, the question becomes: how does it taste?

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Re:Ranging from proof of life to first contact? (Score:5, Funny)

by geegel ( 1587009 ) writes: on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @03:16PM (#34392682)

You just had to ruin it, didn't you?

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I for one (Score:1, Funny)

by slyrat ( 1143997 ) writes: on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @03:16PM (#34392684)

Welcome our astrobiological overlords.

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Did they find the ancient gene? (Score:5, Funny)

by Joe The Dragon ( 967727 ) writes: on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @03:18PM (#34392712)

Did they find the ancient gene?

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It's smoke and mirrors (Score:3, Funny)

by drumcat ( 1659893 ) writes: on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @03:18PM (#34392716)

They want you talking about aliens instead of TSA Gate Rape and Wikileaks. Simple as that.

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Amazing news (Score:4, Funny)

by Quato ( 132194 ) writes: on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @03:18PM (#34392720)

One of the NASA guys got laid!

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Re:Ranging from proof of life to first contact? (Score:5, Funny)

by oodaloop ( 1229816 ) writes: on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @03:20PM (#34392752)

Way to blow your shot at FR1ST CN0TACT post. Nice going.

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Oh, I know (Score:4, Funny)

by bhcompy ( 1877290 ) writes: on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @03:20PM (#34392758)

They found Jita, but their probe got ganked trying to dock with the docking station. $300m in PLEX were lost

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Re:Mmmmm. Seafood. (Score:3, Funny)

by Americano ( 920576 ) writes: on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @03:22PM (#34392804)

It tastes the same as anything else: like chicken.

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Re:Ranging from proof of life to first contact? (Score:4, Funny)

by durrr ( 1316311 ) writes: on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @03:23PM (#34392814)

It's the classic, "amino acid X found in space", that comet they swooshed by recently would be a good target for announcing "amino acid y found on comet".

Then again it's too classic, so it definitely have to be MASS RELAY FOUND IN PLUTONIAN ORBIT!

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Re:Mmmmm. Seafood. (Score:5, Funny)

by spun ( 1352 ) writes: <loverevolutionary&yahoo,com> on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @03:23PM (#34392828) Journal

It tastes Europaean.

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Re:Mmmmm. Seafood. (Score:5, Funny)

by Abstrackt ( 609015 ) writes: on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @03:25PM (#34392874)

These days, even chicken doesn't taste like chicken.

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Re:they found that the astrobiology budget was cut (Score:3, Funny)

by oldspewey ( 1303305 ) writes: on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @03:25PM (#34392880)

This does meet all the criteria.

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Word of the Day (Score:3, Funny)

by SuperBanana ( 662181 ) writes: on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @03:26PM (#34392898)

http://www.google.com/search?q=grandstanding [google.com]

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Re:Mmmmm. Seafood. (Score:4, Funny)

by Americano ( 920576 ) writes: on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @03:26PM (#34392902)

Sure it does. You just have to adjust your expectations for what chicken tastes like.

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Re:ya? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @03:28PM (#34392928)

I, for one, would welcome our new alien-insect overlords!
Our new alien-cephalopod overlords will be displeased by your racially insensitive remarks.

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Frungy Frungy Frungy (Score:5, Funny)

by Caerdwyn ( 829058 ) writes: on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @03:28PM (#34392936) Journal

They found Fwiffo on Pluto.

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Re:Ranging from proof of life to first contact? (Score:5, Funny)

by F34nor ( 321515 ) writes: on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @03:29PM (#34392940)

I am hoping for a GCU so I can get my god damn drug glands.

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Not until thursday? (Score:1, Funny)

by makubesu ( 1910402 ) writes: on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @03:30PM (#34392960)

Somebody wikileak this thing!

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Re:Ranging from proof of life to first contact? (Score:5, Funny)

by elrous0 ( 869638 ) * writes: on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @03:31PM (#34392988)

"NASA finds extraterrestrials...Little Grey Men With Probes," Says Slashdot Poster RsG!

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I know what it is all about! (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @03:32PM (#34392992)

One of the astrobiology guys just saved a bunch of money on his car insurance.

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Re:Taking a page from Apple? (Score:3, Funny)

by Zocalo ( 252965 ) writes: on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @03:32PM (#34392994) Homepage

Oh yeah, because that's one sure fire way of getting along with the stellar neighbours. Send them some "free" music today then, in a few weeks time, the RIAA sends in the lawyers and all their base belong to us...

Um, 3 - profit???

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Re:Amazing news (Score:3, Funny)

by gmuslera ( 3436 ) writes: on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @03:35PM (#34393036) Homepage Journal

NASA astronomer finds extramarital life

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Please please please (Score:5, Funny)

by Lilith's Heart-shape ( 1224784 ) writes: on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @03:37PM (#34393082) Homepage

Please let it be a black monolith on the moon. We're only nine years late.

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Re:Did they find the ancient gene? (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @03:43PM (#34393170)

Please leave KISS out of this.

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Re:Taking a page from Apple? (Score:2, Funny)

by zenjah ( 989288 ) writes: on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @03:44PM (#34393184)

Perhaps the Beatles will finally be available on the International Space Station?

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Re:Ranging from proof of life to first contact? (Score:4, Funny)

by durrr ( 1316311 ) writes: on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @03:46PM (#34393232)

I am hoping for a GCU so I can have sex with a spaceship.

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Fresh frozen waterworld food. (Score:3, Funny)

by fyngyrz ( 762201 ) writes: on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @03:48PM (#34393268) Homepage Journal

I only deal with meta-chicken. Not a metaphor, but instead, meta-fried.
Once, there was a murder of crows who were harassing some horses in the paddock near my barn. I yelled at them, told them that corral-ation wasn't caws-ation, but apparently they thought I was simply winging it.
Also:
Linux is forking good
And Windows is forking not.

I'm speaking of course
Of a call in the source
Just one of them has got

If you need your code
To go down both roads
When choice becomes a Y

Then Linux is better
The one to get her
Forking day and night

Fork, fork, fork, fork
Fork, fork, fork, fork
Forkety-fork
Fork-fork-fork.

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Re:Ranging from proof of life to first contact? (Score:4, Funny)

by element-o.p. ( 939033 ) writes: on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @03:49PM (#34393282) Homepage

...no, this does not mean little grey men with probes.
You mean, the TSA? (Sorry, I just couldn't resist the opportunity!)

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Uranus (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @03:54PM (#34393358)

I'd personally like to see more research into the large, mysterious and likely uninhabitable world of Uranus.

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Re:Ranging from proof of life to first contact? (Score:5, Funny)

by UID30 ( 176734 ) writes: on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @03:57PM (#34393426)

Meh. CommanderTaco made first contact with Uranus years ago. BAZINGA!

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Re:Mmmmm. Seafood. (Score:3, Funny)

by krou ( 1027572 ) writes: on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @04:27PM (#34394004)

What's the matter Colonel Sanders? Chicken?

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Bow down to your new masters (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @04:29PM (#34394064)

I, for one, welcome our new alien overlords. It will either be a case of 'in Soviet Russia' or 'Yoda' speak - I'm not quite sure yet. Or, firmly putting my sparkly tin-foil hat on, perhaps they (TPTB) will reveal that the moon =really is= a Death Star! Where's my lightsaber! :-)

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Re:Mmmmm. Seafood. (Score:4, Funny)

by spun ( 1352 ) writes: <loverevolutionary&yahoo,com> on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @04:42PM (#34394358) Journal

African or Europaean swallow?

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Documents (Score:4, Funny)

by spitzak ( 4019 ) writes: on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @05:04PM (#34394846) Homepage

Not only alien life, they have a trove of hundreds of thousands of documents from the alien government! Describing advanced graft and corruption abilities that are centuries beyond our own!

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Re:Ranging from proof of life to first contact? (Score:4, Funny)

by Sulphur ( 1548251 ) writes: on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @05:10PM (#34394966)

My guess is that it's more like "We are the extra terrestrials. Pay no attention to wikileaks."
Just wait till Wikileaks dumps extra terrestrials data.

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Re:Amazing news (Score:2, Funny)

by Tablizer ( 95088 ) writes: on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @12:03AM (#34399924) Journal

One of the NASA guys got laid!
Then it must be alien life. Earth girls wouldn't.

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Mmmmm. Seafood. (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Ranging from proof of life to first contact? (Score:5, Funny)

I for one (Score:1, Funny)

Did they find the ancient gene? (Score:5, Funny)

It's smoke and mirrors (Score:3, Funny)

Amazing news (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Ranging from proof of life to first contact? (Score:5, Funny)

Oh, I know (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Mmmmm. Seafood. (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Ranging from proof of life to first contact? (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Mmmmm. Seafood. (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Mmmmm. Seafood. (Score:5, Funny)

Re:they found that the astrobiology budget was cut (Score:3, Funny)

Word of the Day (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Mmmmm. Seafood. (Score:4, Funny)

Re:ya? (Score:1, Funny)

Frungy Frungy Frungy (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Ranging from proof of life to first contact? (Score:5, Funny)

Not until thursday? (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Ranging from proof of life to first contact? (Score:5, Funny)

I know what it is all about! (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Taking a page from Apple? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Amazing news (Score:3, Funny)

Please please please (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Did they find the ancient gene? (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Taking a page from Apple? (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Ranging from proof of life to first contact? (Score:4, Funny)

Fresh frozen waterworld food. (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Ranging from proof of life to first contact? (Score:4, Funny)

Uranus (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Ranging from proof of life to first contact? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Mmmmm. Seafood. (Score:3, Funny)

Bow down to your new masters (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Mmmmm. Seafood. (Score:4, Funny)

Documents (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Ranging from proof of life to first contact? (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Amazing news (Score:2, Funny)

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