NASA Downplays "Earthshaking" Discovery on Mars

[Doug]

"As for history books, the whole mission is for the history books"

perhaps im just be a paranoid conspiracy freak, but this sounds suspiciously like bs political doublespeak no?

No, just plain PR talk.

Anywho, this reads as 'scientist get excited over something majority important to him, but mandate to 'average joe', and then NASA begin the damage containment'.

Like with the 'microbes' from the Mars rock they found. That said, I like science-type stuff, so I am curious as to what it could be. Sadly, I don't think it'll be 'ancient Mars microbes found', more likely 'water was here a week ago' or something.

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

THEY'RE HERE

^^ That made my day.

Anyway, I've still got my fingers crossed for martian fossils.

 

[Notsomuch]

He's like NASA's very own Peter Molyneaux.

i hope you mean he is the opposite of Molyneux, because an ambiguous statement like "we've made an exciting discovery" is definitely not what Molyneux is so infamous for

I hope when you said opposite you meant analogous, because even barring the incorrectness of the statement about him being an opposite, it was a joke so obvious I wont bother explaining. Hand in your badge and your keyboard Macduff, you're off the case.

 

[Baresark]

Haha, what else could it be but a buries Shadow ship! Nice shout out to one of the best scifi shows ever made (IMO).

OT: We all get over zealous at times. This could be something huge but NASA and the government could be down playing it (or so says my inner conspiracy theorist).

 

[Evil Smurf]

So this is NASA's version of "Cool story bro?"

I am hoping for dinosaurs in space personally.

 

[Robot Number V]

"As for history books, the whole mission is for the history books"

perhaps im just be a paranoid conspiracy freak, but this sounds suspiciously like bs political doublespeak no?

Well yeah, of course it is. What does that have to do with conspiracies?

Personally, I'm betting they discovered that Mars' brown-to-red dirt ratio is 48.2% higher then expected.

 

[Strazdas]

So, they have found something big, and it turns out it is so big that they cant tell us. smells like the UFO thing all over again.

 

[Milanezi]

Hear me! Sooner or later that curiosity will find a portal into hell, but unlike Doom we don't have space marines to take care of the problem. We're so fucked! not

 

[Thaluikhain]

What, finding something really, really exciting but not telling anyone what it is turns out to be a bullshit PR stunt because people think NASA is a bit off a joke nowdays?

Pardon me while I don't faint with surprise.

Also, really not helping with the "we're not a joke" thing.

 

[Starik20X6]

At first I was thinking it was going to be something huge, like an underground lake or significant traces of microbial life. Now I'm thinking it's probably just a type of geological formation that only occurs under certain atmospheric conditions, thus showing that Mars once had a similar atmospheric makeup to Earth. Which is still pretty exciting, just not as earth-shattering as first implied. Either way, science!

 

[Li Mu]

Lets face it; this is NASA we're talking about. If they found rocks made of compressed solidified methane this would be a BIG thing. Well, I guess that it would indeed be a big thing if they found that, but it's certainly not something your average Joe would find amazing.

What's "One for the history books" for NASA may not be of any major interest to the majority of people.
I bet the discovery is a rock.

 

[Froggy Slayer]

Giant angry squid robots, that's what I'm going to go with.

 

[viranimus]

Good to see then dial it down a little bit. Honestly, its the last thing Nasa needs is a huge hype letdown.

 

[srm79]

Damn. Probably isn't my spare car keys then.