A NASA press release announcing “an astrobiology finding” — something that will impact the search for extraterrestrial life — has sent shockwaves through the blogosphere.
The press release simply announces an event, set for Thursday at 2 p.m. EST, to discuss an astrobiology discovery “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. …
Based on the background of the four conference participants NASA cites, the announcement will probably concern lifeforms that live off of poisonous arsenic. Popular blogger Jason Kottke and others have concluded that the announcement will tie into the quest for life on Saturn’s moon Titan.
“I’d say that they’ve discovered arsenic on Titan and maybe even detected chemical evidence of bacteria utilizing it for photosynthesis,” Kottke theorizes, a hypothesis short of actually confirming alien life.
“Of course,” writes Gawker, “the announcement could be something totally different! Or, it could be that NASA has been contacted by a warlike race of space aliens and a certain-to-fail mission carried out by a ragtag bunch of scientists is our only hope of survival.”
Personally, I think they’re going to announce that, after an exhaustive search, they have failed to find evidence of intelligent life in the NCAA.
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Since it is NASA, more likely it will be the announcement of the formation of a panel that will draw up the specifics of creating a committee to conduct a study on the feasibility of creating a governmental organization to regulate the search for extraterrestrial life.