Comments on: NASA mystery press conference: Did they find ET? https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/11/30/nasa-mystery-press-conference/ Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:04:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Spongebob https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/11/30/nasa-mystery-press-conference/#comment-527102 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:04:36 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/11/30/nasa-mystery-press-conference/#comment-527102 CANT WE DO IT TODAY… HUH…HUH…..THIS IS KILLING ME!!!!

]]> By: M.C. https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/11/30/nasa-mystery-press-conference/#comment-527101 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 06:27:52 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/11/30/nasa-mystery-press-conference/#comment-527101 NASA intern may be right – Felisa Wolfe-Simon was suggesting in the Spring that some results of her research in this area could be published by the end of the year.

]]> By: daedalus2u https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/11/30/nasa-mystery-press-conference/#comment-527100 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 01:57:44 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/11/30/nasa-mystery-press-conference/#comment-527100 My guess, the Dust Analyzer

http://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/dustgroup/

Picked up unmistakable signature of life in the flyby of Rhea that measured the O2 and CO2 in the atmosphere. They caught a dust particle with carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorous and maybe sodium, potassium, zinc, sulfur and iron.

]]> By: NASA intern https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/11/30/nasa-mystery-press-conference/#comment-527099 Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:55:10 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/11/30/nasa-mystery-press-conference/#comment-527099 A new way to detect life. Arsenic based biochemistry

]]> By: sjors https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/11/30/nasa-mystery-press-conference/#comment-527098 Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:11:33 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/11/30/nasa-mystery-press-conference/#comment-527098 Looks like good old Elvis finally ran out of hiding places!

]]> By: gruebait https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/11/30/nasa-mystery-press-conference/#comment-527097 Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:07:30 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/11/30/nasa-mystery-press-conference/#comment-527097 How ’bout a whole slew of Earth-sized planets in the habitable zone of some distant stars…or, or…

]]> By: Jared https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/11/30/nasa-mystery-press-conference/#comment-527096 Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:06:10 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/11/30/nasa-mystery-press-conference/#comment-527096 Rhea?

]]> By: Eric Lund https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/11/30/nasa-mystery-press-conference/#comment-527095 Tue, 30 Nov 2010 17:26:46 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/11/30/nasa-mystery-press-conference/#comment-527095 Given that the press conference is scheduled for Thursday afternoon, I am going to speculate that they will announce the publication of a paper in a GlamourMag. As to the contents of this paper, your guess is as good as mine.

]]> By: Romeo Vitelli https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/11/30/nasa-mystery-press-conference/#comment-527094 Tue, 30 Nov 2010 17:25:19 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/11/30/nasa-mystery-press-conference/#comment-527094 Considering all the hype this announcement of a news conference has generated, NASA had been have some substantial news to report or else critics are going to be grumbling that they have too much time on their hands.

]]> By: Rob https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/11/30/nasa-mystery-press-conference/#comment-527093 Tue, 30 Nov 2010 17:12:50 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/11/30/nasa-mystery-press-conference/#comment-527093 @Albatross: Would that even be news? IIRC, glycine was found in interstellar space quite a while ago.

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