Has NASA Made First Contact?

[SnipErlite]

I am very much looking forward to finding out what it is they've got.

It sounds pretty cool.... Go science!

 

[Monsterfurby]

So no one here has mentioned that we will no longer have any shuttles [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/the-big-picture/2482-Once-Upon-a-Time-in-The-Future] to respond to this imminent alien threat?! Hmmm... actually, who wants to guess that they were holding out on this discovery in case there were 'budget cuts', and now that they have no shuttles they'll be like "oh, and by the way we discovered an alien civilization inside mars, ummm.... yesterday. We need our space shuttle program back D:!!!

(not sure if this was already mentioned in the 'user-made' thread, but meh)

Truth of the matter is, I don't think any alien would be well-advised to get on Earth's bad side... We still have enough firepower to blow our own planet to bits several times over, and the means of delivery are essentially the same stuff we use to put satellites into space.

Also, concerning the Wow-Signal they caught some years ago: It's exciting, but could have been anything. Though I doubt that any intelligent extraterrestrial race catching the Arecibo-message would go "hey, it's a coded message from another world!" but rather "Hey, Jim, the radio telescope is broken again, mind fixing it?"

 

[FieryTrainwreck]

Ideal: they sent a transmission towards the nearest neighboring star system, and the response they got back was "Leave us alone, you right-wing lunatic fucks."

Truth of the matter is, I don't think any alien would be well-advised to get on Earth's bad side... We still have enough firepower to blow our own planet to bits several times over, and the means of delivery are essentially the same stuff we use to put satellites into space.

That's adorable.

 

[Elesar]

No they haven't.

I wish they had, but they haven't. If they had, they'd be SHOUTING it from the rooftops.

 

[razor343]

I suspect it could be some sort of faint radio signal or something.

 

[Crimsonsniper]

I think we should find turians. I like turians.

yay first contact war?

It's more the peacemaking afterwards that pleases me.

The peacemaking and the chafing. Ooooohhh yeeeaaahhh!
They can use my conduit anyday. ; )

/innuendo. Start the real thing.
Do you reckon the female turians come with chafing issues too?

Turians are worth any amount of chafing.

Spoiler: And to answer your question...

These guys.

This picture makes this thread better.

Garrus makes anything better.

 

[silver wolf009]

Probably primitive bacteria.

... still awesome.

If it is I will personally donate my agar dish to the cause.

OT: Perhpas, even if it is new life the chances of it being multicellular are small, and the possability of it being sentient is slimmer still. I guess we will have to wait and see.

 

[Flauros]

i hope they are sexy aliens.

I'm sure they will want to bone us as much as we want to bone them. [/double entendre]

......i dont get it.

 

[Mr. Google]

i hope they are sexy aliens.

Who want to shmeplicate?

 

[Person342]

I doubt it'll be a planet "simply" capable of supporting life, pretty much any can do that (it just won't be life 'as we know it (Jim)'. If it's a planet it'll be more news of an "Earth Like" planet in the green zone, capable of supporting liquid water and life that metabolises using oxygen. I'm thinking the press conferance will be about a new rover or mabey a new peice of equipment for a rover capable of analysing soil for individual bacteria scale aliens.

Though on the plus side, if it IS aliens, they're probably sentient. Think about it: we havn't sent out any space flights for a while, so if we had the technology to find alien bacteria with the probes already out there we'd have done so by now. Better technology is still here on Earth, unlaunched. Ergo, any aliens we just found would have had to have responded to radio broadcasts! Mabey traveling here by hyperspace!

But yeah, rover. But hyperspace! But rover.

and i bet these aliens are reading this right now...

 

[cybran]

i hope they are sexy aliens.

been playing too much mass effect have we ? =)

 

[MarsProbe]

when people hear the word "extraterrestrial life", why do people ignorantly think of the gray aliens?

Unless it's mentioned about the extraterrestrial life being intelligent, all it's going to be it micro-organisms or something similar.

Because it's more fun? Interesting? Because people like to imagine things (should they posess an imagination that is), no matter how unlikely it may be?

Sure, it will end up being space bacteria or soemthing mundane like that, but until that grand reveal, it's more fun to think of the "what ifs". For now, let's leave the alien bacteria to the bods at NASA. And the boring people.

 

[Exort]

Probably primitive bacteria.

... still awesome.

Why it must be "primitive" bacteria.
If it's orgin is outter space then it could been evolving for trillion of years.

 

[Nurb]

It will be like every other "big nasa announcement". They'll say it's really groundbreaking and then it'll be wrong or not that interesting.

 

[tkioz]

meh. I'd love it if it was First Contact, but I honestly doubt they'd even give a hint if it was, it's likely they've found some microbe somewhere, still HUGE news when you consider that large percentages of the less intelligent nations (cough) still refuse to admit that the probability of their not being extra-terrestrial life is so small it's next to impossible.

 

[Griff]

You know I really know that it will be some completely mundane thing, but I really do hope that they have found aliens, or at least the second genesis

 

[JaredXE]

My money goes with bacteria, it's almost always bacteria. Never the ruins of an ancient space-faring race, leaving behind awesome technology that humanity immediately abuses to ill consequences. Nope, it's always bacteria.

 

[omicron1]

I'm gonna guess they found some "required nutrients" or somesuch.

 

[KRbertsproduck5]

IT'S... IT'S... IT'S... boring

 

[Delock]

Everyone keeps arguing between aliens and bacteria.
My bet is aliens made of bacteria that works together similar to cells but has a sort of hive mind, and they shall be nicknamed Legion [sub][sub] probably not, but if it does happen, then I'd like to say I called it [/sub][/sub]