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30 Nov 2010, 4:02 pm

...Conference.

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So NASA seems to have made some hot new astrobiology discovery, but just like the tech companies we're more used to dealing with, it's holding the saucy details under embargo until 2PM on Thursday. That's when it's got a press conference scheduled to discuss its findings, which we're only told "will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life." It's unlikely, therefore, that little green (or brown, or red, or blue) men have been captured somewhere on the dark side of the moon, but there'll definitely be some impactful news coming within only a couple of days. NASA promises a live online stream of the event, which we'll naturally be glued to come Thursday.


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30 Nov 2010, 4:06 pm

remember the, "we'll make an official press announcement thursday" when they claimed to have found bigfoot?

I think news like this would be hitting the air as soon as it was discovered.



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30 Nov 2010, 6:41 pm

Unexpected water or Earth-likes, I guess.


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30 Nov 2010, 8:04 pm

Where's your source for this?


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30 Nov 2010, 10:15 pm

Complex hydrocarbons on some moon or an old McDonald's bag on Mars are my guesses.



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01 Dec 2010, 12:55 am

Link to Official NASA Media Advisory Announcement.


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01 Dec 2010, 2:50 am

LordoftheMonkeys wrote:
Where's your source for this?


The source is in the first post.



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01 Dec 2010, 12:44 pm

Well, technically, Asp-Z, the link in the first post was to a blogpost trying to popularize (and derive amusement from) the announcement. The link to NASA was at the bottom, and looked like it should just be a keyword for finding the post later - I tried clicking on it as an experiment, and was pleasantly surprised to find it was in fact a link to the NASA advisory. That's why I linked directly to the advisory myself.


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01 Dec 2010, 1:40 pm

DeaconBlues wrote:
Well, technically, Asp-Z, the link in the first post was to a blogpost trying to popularize (and derive amusement from) the announcement. The link to NASA was at the bottom, and looked like it should just be a keyword for finding the post later - I tried clicking on it as an experiment, and was pleasantly surprised to find it was in fact a link to the NASA advisory. That's why I linked directly to the advisory myself.


The blog was where I first heard the news and it is, FYI, one of the biggest and most reputable tech blogs on the internet, not some random blog trying to get attention.