FORUMula1.com - F1 Forum

[What's Burning?]

WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 2, to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe.

The news conference will be held at the NASA Headquarters auditorium at 300 E St. SW, in Washington. It will be broadcast live on NASA Television and streamed on the agency's website at http://www.nasa.gov.

Participants are:
- Mary Voytek, director, Astrobiology Program, NASA Headquarters, Washington
- Felisa Wolfe-Simon, NASA astrobiology research fellow, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, Calif.
- Pamela Conrad, astrobiologist, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
- Steven Benner, distinguished fellow, Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, Gainesville, Fla.
- James Elser, professor, Arizona State University, Tempe

Media representatives may attend the conference or ask questions by phone or from participating NASA locations. To obtain dial-in information, journalists must send their name, affiliation and telephone number to Steve Cole at [email protected] or call 202-358-0918 by noon Dec. 2.

For NASA TV streaming video and downlink information, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For more information about NASA astrobiology activities, visit:
http://astrobiology.nasa.gov

[SennaVille]

Okay, I'm officially excited *rubbing hands together*

[The_Stig_Money]

I am not surprised... there are 3,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (21 zeros) stars with planets orbiting them

To believe we are the only things crawling around in space is just crazy

If we find the smallest organism on a planet it will unite the people of earth and we should rethink the way we percieve ourselfs

[SennaVille]

I am not surprised... there are 3,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (21 zeros) stars with planets orbiting them

To believe we are the only things crawling around in space is just crazy

If we find the smallest organism on a planet it will unite the people of earth and we should rethink the way we percieve ourselfs

Yes, but to find actual proof is amazing! Because we haven't been able to re-enact life, or even discover how life actually started, it really hasn't been a given that life would exist elsewhere. I've read tons of books on this, and believe me, all the pointy-heads have gone through all the variables possible and it's never been a certainty that life on other planets (no matter how hospitable) exists. Actually, most experts believe that life may be a one-off freak event.

Even if it's the smallest of micro-organisms, it'd be the most exciting discovery in the history of man-kind *popcorn*

[The_Stig_Money]

[quoteActually, most experts believe that life may be a one-off freak event.][/quote]

There are so many variations of life on this planet imagine what can excist on far off galaxys

Once we find life, it will open our eyes to the way life developes that seems imposible to our current knowledge.

500 years ago our science was rudimentary, imagine what it will be like 500 years from now

[SennaVille]

[quoteActually, most experts believe that life may be a one-off freak event.]

There are so many variations of life on this planet imagine what can excist on far off galaxys

Once we find life, it will open our eyes to the way life developes that seems imposible to our current knowledge.

500 years ago our science was rudimentary, imagine what it will be like 500 years from now[/quote]

There may be many variations on this planet, but that's because some kind of rudimentary life started on this planet. There may be millions of planets out there, but what if it takes just one little ingredient to start life, and only our planet had that special something? That's the basis that we've been working on so far, and nothing else we've discovered has said otherwise (fermi paradox).

So, yeah, this is really exciting.

[The_Stig_Money]

It is kind of depressing to think we are the only self consious beings ever

[What's Burning?]

Scientists only accept repeatable verifiable results, hence the reluctance to speculate, but given the number of little white dots out there, I'd bet on us having neighbors. Interstellar or intergalactic communication is something entirely less likely with our current technology.

[darwin dali]

[youtube]hdjL8WXjlGI&feature=related[/youtube]

[The_Stig_Money]

[youtube]hdjL8WXjlGI&feature=related[/youtube]

Will there be any sexxy aliens?

[What's Burning?]

Any guesses?

Mine at this point is they'll be announcing some form of fossilized bacterial or microbial life form found in Martian soil/water.

I'm excited!

[SennaVille]

Any guesses?

Mine at this point is they'll be announcing some form of fossilized bacterial or microbial life form found in Martian soil/water.

I'm excited!

My guess is that they've found something here on Earth that proves life can start in different ways. I read a book by the Paul Davies (link below), and he mentioned something called "strange life".

Every living thing on earth has certain components that can be traced back to a common ancestor, but if some form of life was discovered that didn't share those components (strange life), it shows that life has started more than once. This really is the equivalent of saying that life can occur anywhere. Here's a link where he mentions organisms that may be asenic instead of carbon based: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/spac ... ntist.html

The above discovery would be just as exciting to me than finding life-forms on Mars

[texasmr2]

If other life forms are eventually discovered will they be F1 fans and realize that MS is the greatest???

[SennaVille]

If other life forms are eventually discovered will they be F1 fans and realize that MS is the greatest???

All aliens shall bow down to Alonso's eyebrows

[texasmr2]

If other life forms are eventually discovered will they be F1 fans and realize that MS is the greatest???

All aliens shall bow down to Alonso's eyebrows

Bow to the unibrow .