Has NASA Made First Contact?

[Elburzito]

I wonder if it contains instructions to build a machine that appears to do nothing on the outside, but will send a person several thousand light years. Preferably containing Jodie Foster.

MASS EFFECT!

Nope, Contact.

What a shame. I thought I was off...

 

[fulano]

Oh, snap. I did a little research (aka googled some shit) and am finding out that it may all be about some folk finding acid based lifeforms. That's encouraging...and quite scary.

 

[Crazy_Bird]

http://m.gizmodo.com/5704158

Interesting leak. Not sure if it's fully reliable but sounds interesting nonetheless.

 

[Little Duck]

I always hoped it would be tourists crashing to earth from a space version of ryan air voyage.

 

[theriddlen]

So, any news yet?

Btw, me wants Asari. I'm willing to personally help them to integrate with humans. Or at least one.

 

[CloudKiller]

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/12/nasa-finds-new-life/

After all that build up it's sorta anti-climatic but still cool I guess

 

[AMMO Kid]

I don't believe in aliens

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/12/nasa-finds-new-life/

After all that build up it's sorta anti-climatic but still cool I guess

Anti-climactic? That's fucking amazing! Everything about terrestrial biology gets shaken up, the basic building blocks of life as we thought it was have been proven wrong.

 

[jonnosferatu]

Anti-climactic?

This challenges huge blocks of our understanding of the limitations on life and has dramatic implications in several fields, particularly Synthetic Biology (which, if you remember, also got its 'FIRST TRANSISTOR FUCK YEAH!' moment pretty recently, too).

 

[Dr. Paine]

Wait, the announcement is that arsenic based life? That's been out for months...

 

[steeple]

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/12/nasa-finds-new-life/

After all that build up it's sorta anti-climatic but still cool I guess

youve got to be shiting me.....

AWESOME!
I mean, forget the benificial impications this could have on our lifes, this is just amazing...
and they found it on california... who knew?

 

[DiMono]

Man, I went to nasa.gov to watch the stream, but it's not loading. That sucks. I guess I'll have to read it in the funnies.

 

[Secret world leader (shhh)]

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/12/nasa-finds-new-life/

After all that build up it's sorta anti-climatic but still cool I guess

Awwww, no aliens...not even microbes?

I'm sure it's amazing news but honestly I couldn't give a shit about this.

 

[MadeinHell]

God damn it they are talking about microbes from earth... They are not carbon based from what I understand and that's what so "great" about them .

Boo hoo. No grey aliens on the conference.

I'm filled with disappointment.

 

[BrownGaijin]

So the press release was about research about bacteria found in California, and how it replaces phosphorus and thrives on arsenic; an element that is considered poisonous to all other living beings that we know of. Well the research will definitely impact the "search" for extra terrestrial life.

Sorry no first contact.

 

[fulano]

God damn it they are talking about microbes from earth... They are not carbon based from what I understand and that's what so "great" about them .

Boo hoo. No grey aliens on the conference.

I'm filled with disappointment.

Dude, they just announced that there is life made of fucking poison. How can that not blow your mind?

Today, arsenic bacterias. Tomorrow? Who knows, maybe PREDATORS somewhere on the universe made out of this thing.

Xenomorphs don't look too crazy now, huh?

 

[jaketheripper]

If they do actually confirm extraterrestrial life, odds are it'll be bacteria. We can only wait and see...

Anyone with half a brain would know that there is life out there besides us.

I hope that we have found someone.....question is.....friend or foe?

Despite what War of the Worlds(and every other first-contact movie) will tell you, there is no reason for aliens to be foes. If some Covenant-style hive-mind wanted to conquer planets, they wouldn't come here. It doesn't make sense to come all this way just to risk losing.

Wow thats my birthday! Clearly its my destiny to be the new administrator of city 17!

I swear if you sell us out, I'm busting out the crowbar.

then ill make a game about you! it shall be called...Half life 2:episode three.... oh wait thats never gunna be made

 

[RyQ_TMC]

Wait, the announcement is that arsenic based life? That's been out for months...

First news of bacteria utilizing arsenic (I think it was even the same strain, from the same lake) was over 2 years ago. But now they've shown that it can live without phosphorus by replacing it with arsenic, even in nucleic acid chains. That's pretty amazing, I think. Although it's not an "alternative life form", we still seem to share the same ancestor.

It is true that we're kinda going through the same motions as with "synthetic life wooo!" earlier this year, which was a big thing for biotechnology (by way of developing better molecular tools), but extremely overhyped and heavily misreported by the media.

 

[Digikid]

Thats it? MAJOR disappointment.

I want to be able to see an actual ALIEN before I die.

 

[Snake Plissken]

God damn it they are talking about microbes from earth... They are not carbon based from what I understand and that's what so "great" about them .

Boo hoo. No grey aliens on the conference.

I'm filled with disappointment.

They are still totally carbon based, just like you and I. Their DNA is what is dissimilar, which is fucking mind-blowing. Far more mind-blowing than finding something that is silicon based rather than carbon based.