Has NASA Made First Contact?

[Lord Kloo]

They've probably made first contact with something no-one at NASA has ever experienced...

A woman

Oh how I joke..

Seriously, I hope it's something good but if it was intelligent life they wouldn't say until the government had made it clear we like being alive..
On another note, they shouldn't scrap NASA to fill cuts, cut the army or something less important..

 

[JUMBO PALACE]

As said above by many users, either a planet that can support life or some kind of primitive bacteria. Wouldn't it be great if we were all wrong and NASA should up with an alien though?

 

[Josh123914]

I think we should find turians. I like turians.

fuck turians, the Hanar are the most polite jellyfish in the universe, on second thought, fuck Hanar, Quarians created genocidal robots and wear helmets indoors, actually, fuck the Quarians, The Geth are Genocidal robots, who wouldn't want one?

 

[tojawi]

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.

That's like saying that hitler wouldn't have taken over north america just to risk losing. H would've, once he took over Europe. Aliens that are systematically going through space destroying/enslaving races would get here eventually, also, maybe theyre spaceships are A GAZILLION years ahead of ours, which would make the distance not as much, (ie. When you drive 42Km it doesnt feel the same as if you ran a marathon, and it took A fraction of the time).

 

[Indignation837]

HA! A Simpsons reference AND a "They Live" reference in one article... classic! My money's on them finding not life, but another planet with the right conditions to support human life for us to colonize. I know they found a planet recently that they said had the potential to be life-sustaining, maybe they've done more research and found out that we could actually colonize it.

 

[Scabadus]

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.

 

[Dr. Paine]

I think we should find turians. I like turians.

fuck turians, the Hanar are the most polite jellyfish in the universe, on second thought, fuck Hanar, Quarians created genocidal robots and wear helmets indoors, actually, fuck the Quarians, The Geth are Genocidal robots, who wouldn't want one?

I want Legion!

If we had to make contact with any ME race though, I'd hope for drell.

Or maybe turians.

Or non-heretic geth.

You know, NASA has probably discovered the X-Parasite xD Now let us all prepare to be taken over by squishy blobs, then some intergalactic bounty hunter either has to kill us all or release soul-sucking jellyfish, then blow the Earth up.

 

[Je Suis Ubermonkey]

I think we should find turians. I like turians.

yay first contact war?

I want it to be elcor, because that is the only way I am ever watching a production of Hamlet.

 

[Merkavar]

if you cant have sex with it then its not really an alien worth having an announcement about

 

[LogicNProportion]

...I really want to believe that they found em...

...Sneaky cunts.

 

[Nayr]

Probably primitive bacteria.

... still awesome.

I give it a 20% chance that it will be that, a 20% chance is that they figured out how to find water on out of solar system planets, and a 60% chance it will be an announcement for a new statelite that will make it easier to find planets with water on them.[/quote

I am pretty sure they can already detect water. Indirectly at least. Spectroscopy FTW lol.

 

[sheic99]

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.

Hah, I liked that film when I caught it on TV - what was it called, First Contact or something?

It would be absolutely amazing if we established first contact within my lifespan, there's been long enough (I guess) for a signal to get back to us from Alpha Centauri... though at over 4 light years, any sort of diplomacy is going to be even slower than usual, hah!

It was Contact. This may kick start the space program also.

 

[Digikid]

I am sorry but what are TURIANS????

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

Yeah, it's probably bacteria at absolute BEST. More likely, it's just something stupid, like some new detail that HINTS as POSSIBLE bacteria SOMEWHERE. That's what it usually is with these things.

 

[mjc0961]

Now, if we've defrosted Charon and found an interstellar gateway... well, I always did want to go into the military, I'd sign for space military xD

Looking to go kick some turian ass in the First Contact War, eh?

 

[Digikid]

EDIT: Sorry.....server hiccup.

 

[LavaLampBamboo]

I think we should find turians. I like turians.

The first thing we did when we met the Turians? Shot them! Although maybe they shot first, I don't know.

OT: The way they phrase it with their "...impact the search for evidence..." That means they don't have any evidence, just a new MacGuffin that will make it easier to find stuff. Like a slightly bigger telescope. Or a robot space dog.

 

[ckam]

Should I say, "Yay?"

 

[lumenadducere]

Yeah, I'm expecting it to be an announcement of a planet that has very similar conditions to Earth or something. I get the feeling that if it was actual life then they'd have a much harder time holding in the news until Thursday. Especially with all the talks about NASA getting cut or losing funding.

 

[Dr. Paine]

I am sorry but what are TURIANS????

This. [http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Turian]