Tomorrow is the NASA Announcement, that many speculate will be about the discovery of alien life, evidence of bacteria. Did NASA discover life at Saturn’s moons? Not really, but Saturn’s second largest moon, Rhea, has a very thin oxygen atmosphere and complex chemistry, says Cassini Project scientist Linda Spilker of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. NASA recently woke up the Cassini Spacecraft from it’s ’safe mode’ to repair a computer glitch in time for a close fly-by of the Saturian moon, Enceladeus on Nov. 25th. The glitch prevented observations to be made of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, on Nov. 11th. Scientific data stored onboard was able to be retrieved. When compared with data from previous observations of the moon Rhea, evidence of the very thin oxygen atmosphere seems confirmed Cassini scientists like Ben Teolis of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio and James Elser from Arizona State University believe the discovery may be as important as any made in our Solar System by any probe, even by the Hubble Space Telescope. The speculation began by a blogger, Jason Kottke, who saw a press release from the space agency.
The press release tells of a news conference to be held this Thursday. NASA says it will be to “discuss an astrobiological finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life.” The NASA press release adds, “Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe.” That covers a lot of ground.
Tomorrow is the NASA Announcement, that many speculate will be about the discovery of alien life, evidence of bacteria. So, the speculation builds. Does this big announcement have anything to do with a very thin oxygen atmosphere being found on the icy moon Rhea? Did NASA discover life on Saturn’s moons? Or does it have to do with a discovery of life on Mars? We’ve recently had some return-sample missions from comets, too. Could the Thursday press conference be about life being distributed about our Solar System by comets or even asteroids? Stay tuned, folks, it might be worth watching NASA TV!
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December 1st, 2010 at 3:24 pm
“Alien Life, Evidence of Bacteria?”
nah, it was just a facebook image of brian
but i can see hoe scientists might confuse the two
December 1st, 2010 at 3:38 pm
@ Lisab
Dont leave out Elf Boy.
You’ll hurt his feelings
December 1st, 2010 at 4:37 pm
:’) As if I care what a child molester says
December 1st, 2010 at 5:04 pm
Everyone says that til your mom busts out her drivers license
December 1st, 2010 at 7:55 pm
how would that be relevant?
December 1st, 2010 at 8:33 pm
Nuff said
http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=7780&cp=all#comments
December 1st, 2010 at 8:36 pm
omg elf-boy is back?!!!
are there no renaissance faires or star trek conventions in december?
December 1st, 2010 at 8:54 pm
You know Lis, you’re a bit like a fungus… you’re growing on me…
December 2nd, 2010 at 2:56 am
elf-boy,
you have fungus growing on you?
btw, just to let you know, i believe we did eventually find one of your facebook/myspace accounts. it was listed online someplace.
however, we were absolutely telling the truth that we did not see your accounts when we identified you as a star trek, world of warcraft, renaissance faire person.
just out of curiosity,
what is your opinion of this woman?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVWqlv3f1z0
(i am not altogether clear on the dividing line between freaks and geeks)
December 2nd, 2010 at 6:45 am
“how would that be relevant?”
Your mothers a fcking dwarf and I’m your daddy.
Where’d ya think you got the name “Elf Boy”?
Was the easiest hundred I ever made
December 2nd, 2010 at 7:19 am
@ lisab
I’ll tell you what I think of that woman singing in the video…
She’s no Julie Andrews singing ‘Do-Re-Me”
December 2nd, 2010 at 7:35 am
Sounds like elf boys mom getting bent over
December 2nd, 2010 at 1:40 pm
Andy Z,
Wahkeena Sitka is a goddess! her videos are extremely entertaining — check out the one on perineum breathing … yes you read that correctly lol.
whenever you are stumped on something just ask yourself … wwwsd? (what would wahkeena sitka do?
December 3rd, 2010 at 8:43 am
Andy,
It is always a pleasure to read your articles and to see what topics you turn your attention too. When it comes to your information on:
“….NASA says it will be to “discuss an astrobiological finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life.”
I feel I have to add my point of view on anything in regard to Nasa’s secrets and hints on extraterrestrial life. I often wonder how is comes that Aliens….the carriers of the well budgeted, lucrative and high prestige jobs offering research on extraterrestrial life..appear to only land or show up in the rich countries. Notably in the USA. And if the Aliens make it to the United States, it appears they prever to land in the New Mexico dessert or in the backyard of elder – mostly single – gays and gals. Is that a sign for the the Aliens showed up on earth by mistake, for example because an apprentice UFO captain took a wrong turn in the galaxy and landed by coincidence somewhere between the blankets of an overstressed fellow searching attention. Should it not be that – if Aliens make the effort to visit earth, they would prefer locations with high density of population of aircraft/technology hubs, like the New York Airports? Or Capa Canavaral.
It comes to me as a surprise that Aliens never make an appearance in poorer countries, especially not to those countries which do not offer high salaries for discovering extraterrestrial findings.
December 3rd, 2010 at 9:51 am
@ Karin
Thanks for the comments and critique!
I suppose aliens from outer space who visit us must be reasonably intelligent. After all, they did build cool flying saucers to come here.
Therefore, it’s obvious that aliens would visit developed, rich countries more often. I have referred in the past to one of my favorite Tom Clancy characters, John Clark, who rates countries by their ‘Saturday Nights’. Places with a fun, lively Saturday night must be more attractive to aliens, and other rational beings.
I should point out, however, that according to UFO lore, they do visit everywhere. In ancient times, they seemed more interested in places rich in raw materials, like the Andes mountain range. Pretty much every culture has incidents which could be interpreted as an alien visit. There have been a lot of sightings recently in Mongolia, Mexico and other poorer nations. There are also rumors of more formal landings, such as one at the Hollomann US Air Force base in the late 1960s.
December 3rd, 2010 at 11:42 am
They’re microscopic, in your brain, making you think you see these huge vessels.
80 MGs of prozac seems to keep them dormant