[meteorite-list] NASA Sets News Conference on Astrobiology Discovery

[Steve Dunklee]

I am hoping the announcement will be evidence of life off earth since I believe it is likely. But after having thanksgiving dinner in League City near Houston nasa and no gossip from the engineers I doubt anything awesome. Only time will tell.

On Wed Dec 1st, 2010 3:10 PM EST Meteorites USA wrote:

>I don't think it will be a disclaimer, though they might say something, it's highly doubtful they'd put together a panel of distinguished scientists to discount the likes of delusional people. You wouldn't need 5 scientists/astrobiologists. A NASA spokesperson would suffice for something like that..
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>In an earlier list post Richard Kowalski mentioned that it could be anything. As well it could be... NASA says "...to discuss an astrobiology *finding* that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life..." That could mean lots of different things. It could impact it in a "negative" way. They could have found a new element which destroys life and makes it impossible for life to survive in space. In fact this doesn't say anything about space, except for the connection we're automatically drawing with astrobiology.
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>So what is it...? Guess we'll have to wait until tomorrow.
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>Could be it an historic discovery? Or maybe I'm just hoping really hard...;) It could be something not so grand as a fossil in a meteorite. Perhaps another amino acid, or a newly discovered deepwater plankton which can survive in space too. Who knows...
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>I'll keep on hoping for aliens in rocks from space.
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>Eric
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>On 12/1/2010 7:14 AM, Steve Dunklee wrote.."
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>> Has it occured to anyone the announcement might be a disclaimer stating no clear evidence of microbial life has been found? That the suspected fossils were actually caused by solar radiation or some other geological process which simulates fossils? I guess we will find out on the 2nd. Have a great day. Steve Dunklee.
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