Big News at NASA
I'm really excited. If rumours are true, NASA may in a few days announce their most important message since July 1969.
Planetary scientists at the Johnson Space Center in Houston have been re-visiting the Mars asteroid with the de-bunked and controversial fossil evidence of Martian microbes using new technologies unavailable when they were first discovered fourteen years ago. It appears the new methods have proved very conclusively that there was extra terrestrial life on Mars.
They've found a few more asteroids, including one that sat in the British Museum in London for the past 100 years, that also display this evidence. They've even formed some pretty good hypotheses around when and how the organisms lived.
Since this is NASA, and not a fly-by-night hack looking for a big media hit, they're still checking their research before they announce that aliens have existed for sure, and might still be there. As the late Dr. Carl Sagan used to say, "extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof."
But wow. Alien life proven to exist. If that announcement actually is made, it changes the world forever. Philsophically, it would be the biggest scientific discovery since Copernicus put the Sun at the center of the solar system. What an appropriate way to start off 2010.
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In the category of Too Soon-but-Too-Damn-Funny-Not-to-Post: A special person who loves games like L4D and movies like ZombieLand said to me yesterday ... "50,000 dead in Hati? Imagine how many zombies there are going to be!"
Forgive me.
Planetary scientists at the Johnson Space Center in Houston have been re-visiting the Mars asteroid with the de-bunked and controversial fossil evidence of Martian microbes using new technologies unavailable when they were first discovered fourteen years ago. It appears the new methods have proved very conclusively that there was extra terrestrial life on Mars.
They've found a few more asteroids, including one that sat in the British Museum in London for the past 100 years, that also display this evidence. They've even formed some pretty good hypotheses around when and how the organisms lived.
Since this is NASA, and not a fly-by-night hack looking for a big media hit, they're still checking their research before they announce that aliens have existed for sure, and might still be there. As the late Dr. Carl Sagan used to say, "extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof."
But wow. Alien life proven to exist. If that announcement actually is made, it changes the world forever. Philsophically, it would be the biggest scientific discovery since Copernicus put the Sun at the center of the solar system. What an appropriate way to start off 2010.
*****
In the category of Too Soon-but-Too-Damn-Funny-Not-to-Post: A special person who loves games like L4D and movies like ZombieLand said to me yesterday ... "50,000 dead in Hati? Imagine how many zombies there are going to be!"
Forgive me.