Still listening to developments, but the press conference started and they announced an alien civilization about 100 years behind ours on one of Saturn's moons

how do u no its fake?




u don

also, link plz, thx monkey

They said at the beginning of the conference that they leaked a fake one so the real news didn't get out

I really hope you realize that my spelling, punctuation, and emoticons were conveying a sense of sarcasm in that post.

It looks like another case of journalistic douchebaggery. But the real development is almost as bizarre and interesting.

Talk about bizarre! Apparently the aliens have known about us for a decade and THEY reached out to US after they determined we wouldn't be hostile.

Man, those aliens must be dumb as ****.

I AM F*CKING FREAKING OUT.

What are we talking about when we say "life"? Cause molecules do not excite me.

I am not sure what this thread is about. Is there really a NASA conference about something or is this a... Fallout 4 joke? I DUNNOES

They haven't talked at all about what they look like, but if they've built a civilization comparable to 1900s Earth...

Fastgamerr- This is from a NASA press conference going on RIGHT NOW.

OMFG WE NEED TOM CRUISE

Jumping Jujubies!

How does a civilization on the level of 1900's Earth observe and contact Earth?

There are some plot holes in your fake story.

Hahaha, they found the arsenic life in Mono Lake. I'm not surprised at all - Mono Lake is the nastiest, vilest, most acidic ****ing place in the country. You could swim in Mono Lake for about 2 minutes, then your skin starts to fall off.

ROUGHLY equivalent. Obvious they will be more advanced in some areas (like radio) than others.

pics or it didn't happen

What is this

That's the fake announcement they leaked, right.

This is some War of the Worlds ****. Further proof that Orson Welles is not dead and has been orchestrating the fictional portrayal of the space program from the beginning.

WOW! They just played the original audio from first contact. It sounds so weird...

Sounds like a bad stargate episode.

I like stargate...

(sorry been dieing to use this)

NASA CEO: Guys, the space program has taken a beating in the last few years. People just don't care about space anymore.

NASA Scientist 2: They will after the next issue of National Geographic. We got some more beealtiful pictures from voyager 1, of some nebula's no less!

NASA Scientist 3: We have nothing to worry about. You guys didn't hear we found alien life on one of the moons of Saturn? We'll let me tell you about it, they are all like 100 years behind us in technology, so that puts them early 1900's tech with some differences. They've been chatting with me over the radio for a couple weeks now.

NASA Scientist 2: Wait, we've got a entire race of sexy purple skinned Steampunk aliens and no one even told me?!

NASA CEO. That's ridiculous, I haven't heard anything about this.

NASA Scientist 3: Yeah, most people haven't, like the public. I bet if you tell them this at the next press conference we wont have to worry about funding for a while *wink* *Wink*

Duba post

Also, now we can point fingers at who is responsible for the Hexagon on Saturn.

I am.

I do too.. aha! A tv show we can agree on!

There's no audio in the online telecast.

I wish what was going on was clearer.

Edit: **** happydud for getting me excited.

Stargate is a great show.

coolest of stories

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101202/full/news.2010.645.html

I think it's great how whenever NASA schedules a press conference with the promise of something exciting, perhaps millions of people go "zomg is it can be aliens?!" but then it's something that no one cares about (unless they look into what the new discovery means, I'm personally among those "c'mon where da aliens at" people but I realize this must affect our approach to examining the origins of life and assessing the possibility of life on planets with a different atmosphere to Earth's).

I liked Stargate the movie... the show sucked.
Anyways, I've often wondered if it would be possible for life to form with something other than the same DNA configuration earthly life has. Sadly, it's been years since I took biology or chemistry, so I dunno what all ramifications arsenic instead of phosphorous might imply, but it's good to know that life's not limited to what we've got inside us.

-I'm still waiting on confirmation of life based on sound waves >:D

The show sucked past season 7, before that it had a lot of special moments.

I am having my special moment right now.

As I understand it this is not really "arsenic based life." The bacteria in question can incorporate phosphorus and in fact thrive when they can, but they can effectively substitute it with arsenic.

Also Emon is right. This is still carbon based life. Even if they did completely replace phosphorous with arsenic, they'd still be carbon based. Besides, phosphate and arsenate are almost identical. Haven't they already found bacteria that use nitrate the same way?

Sure it's not as compelling as not having carbon, but Ars explained it pretty well, in that life up till now seemed to require ~6 elements for its DNA, and arsenic was typically toxic. Being able to adapt and use it instead for its DNA means that the 6 elements required can be more varied, which opens up more possibilities.

False, shows have to change and evolve to some extent. RDA can't play one role forever.