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Level -> RE: Something's coming... (8/3/2008 12:36:17 PM)

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ORIGINAL: GreedyTop

they found Michael Jacksons nose?


Or his career?

Or this guy?



GreedyTop -> RE: Something's coming... (8/3/2008 1:02:00 PM)

I love Marvin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(and NOBODY will ever find MJs career..that got sucked into a black hole)



kiwisub12 -> RE: Something's coming... (8/3/2008 3:16:10 PM)

Well, if it isn't alien poop or a cigarette butt, then it must be ........   a monolith!


But a really really little one.



GreedyTop -> RE: Something's coming... (8/3/2008 3:20:23 PM)

*wonders where my Spinal Tap video is...*

Ok, not really a monolith, but the first thing that popped into my head reading your post, Kiwi..LOL



thishereboi -> RE: Something's coming... (8/3/2008 3:52:46 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: GreedyTop

they found Michael Jacksons nose?


Oh they found that a long time ago, he had loned it to his sister, after hers fell off.



LotusSong -> RE: Something's coming... (8/3/2008 3:53:26 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Kirata

UNIVERSE TODAY [www.universetoday.com] reports:
 
Anybody want to speculate on what this is going to be?
 
K.

 


The rovers made a sharp right turn and have actually landed in the Arizona desert and had since been exploring what was believed to be "Mars".



LotusSong -> RE: Something's coming... (8/3/2008 3:55:29 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: stef

They found Saddam's hidden cache of WMDs??

~stef



Maybe they found Bush's ethics?



bipolarber -> RE: Something's coming... (8/3/2008 3:59:29 PM)

Sanity,

I think you should sit down calmly... take a stress pill... and think things over...

Can you imagine the cost of trying to ship a barrel of crude betwen planets? It would be far worse than going in our own backyard... (I mean the moon) and, as things stand now, if the moon were made of gold bars, the cost of going there, and shipping them back wouldn't begin to pay back the cost of the mission to get there.

Get a grip, man.



TreasureKY -> RE: Something's coming... (8/3/2008 4:05:34 PM)

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ORIGINAL: bipolarber

Sanity,

I think you should sit down calmly... take a stress pill... and think things over...

Can you imagine the cost of trying to ship a barrel of crude betwen planets? It would be far worse than going in our own backyard... (I mean the moon) and, as things stand now, if the moon were made of gold bars, the cost of going there, and shipping them back wouldn't begin to pay back the cost of the mission to get there.

Get a grip, man.


lol... Personally, I would think that anyone calmly thinking things over would realize just what a discovery of oil on Mars would mean.  Beyond the short-sighted elation of a possible new source to exploit, just what do you think oil is created from? 

Life.

Edited to add:

Besides... my money is on them announcing that they've discovered where Elvis has been living all these years.  [;)]



bipolarber -> RE: Something's coming... (8/3/2008 4:44:50 PM)

Treasure,

True enough. So at least life would have HAD to have existed at one time.

Or, it could have been a thermo chemical process, much the same as we're seeing on Titan currently. Just last week (?) there was an an announcement that Cassini had positively ID's a lake of liquid ethane on the surface the size of lake Ontario... which is similar to petroleum in it's chemical makeup... and considering the mean surface temp. of Titan is somewhere around -240 F., I doubt there were any steaming prehistoric jungles around in its history to make it.  



Vendaval -> RE: Something's coming... (8/3/2008 4:57:50 PM)

I think that the announcement will be along the lines of what NOVA has been airing on PBS.
 
"Life's Little Essential"
by Peter Tyson
 
"So why is liquid water the sine qua non of life as we know it? Liquid water may sound redundant, but planetary scientists insist on using the qualifier, for solid or vaporous water won't do. The biochemical reactions that sustain life need a fluid in order to operate. In a liquid, molecules can dissolve and chemical reactions occur. And because a liquid is always in flux, it effectively conveys vital substances like metabolites and nutrients from one place to another, whether it's around a cell, an organism, an ecosystem, or a planet. Getting molecules where they need to go is difficult within a solid and all too easy within a gas—vapor-based life would go all to pieces."

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/mars/essential.html



TheHeretic -> RE: Something's coming... (8/3/2008 5:04:11 PM)

FR

    Well, I still haven't tracked down that anecdotal study of possible mass-reaction to news of extra-terrestrial life, but based on the majority of the posts on this thread (the last few as I type excluded), it does seem that most folks can't even handle the idea of it being discussed.

      My question, to those so intent on dragging the topic off into the muck;  What are you so afraid of talking about?  Why?



GreedyTop -> RE: Something's coming... (8/3/2008 5:47:10 PM)

personally, I'd love to have scientific, irrefutable evidence of extraterrestrial life.

Years ago I was  member of a message board called The Straight Dope (while it was still on AOL).  There was a guy there who I would CONSTANTLY get into battles with about the possiblility of life outside of our atmosphere.. *sigh*

I miss him.. actually, I miss that whole community....



coupleowl -> RE: Something's coming... (8/3/2008 5:48:38 PM)

(To the public) Ladies and Gentlemen, we would like to announce that there is something probably out there. Most defiantly maybe.

(Behind closed doors) Well we bought us some time, attention will be shifted from the failing economy and our ever growing debt…Maybe.




bipolarber -> RE: Something's coming... (8/3/2008 5:49:53 PM)

Oh, I don't think anyone's trying to pooh-pooh the notion of extraterrestrial life here... I think it's more like; "we've been down this road so many times..."

The government's caution about the admission that there might be bacteria on Mars shouldn't be a huge shock to most people. We've been getting used to the idea of alien life since at least the mid-19th century.... (before that, if you want to include Kepler's "A Somniuem" to the list) But we have had a few flaps that might make people worry. There was the panic broadcast of 1938,  and several UFO flaps in the 50's and 70's that might make some people wonder if we're ready to meet the reality of not being alone.

However, IF there is microbeal life on the red planet, at least we can take solace in the fact that they probably don't have ray guns. ;)



GreedyTop -> RE: Something's coming... (8/3/2008 5:50:06 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: LotusSong

quote:

ORIGINAL: stef

They found Saddam's hidden cache of WMDs??

~stef



Maybe they found Bush's ethics?


Can't find something that never existed..



GreedyTop -> RE: Something's coming... (8/3/2008 5:52:43 PM)

BB.. but they could have something ELSE!! *insert evil laughter*

And to this day, the broadcast of War of the Worlds (the radio program, NOT the movie, for you youngsters) is still one of the most chilling things I've heard.. of course, having only heard the broadcast second hand, I may be filtering through my Grandparents recollections...



bipolarber -> RE: Something's coming... (8/3/2008 5:53:25 PM)

How many of us on this site run SETI@home?  (I have, since about 1999...) Just curious.



GreedyTop -> RE: Something's coming... (8/3/2008 5:54:52 PM)

I did, for a while. Now my computer is just too old (and overloaded) to handle it..



Sanity -> RE: Something's coming... (8/3/2008 5:55:42 PM)


Obama's leadership experience?

His core values?

Perhaps some real shoes, so Obama can ditch his John Kerry flip-flops.


quote:

ORIGINAL: LotusSong


Maybe they found Bush's ethics?



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