Comments on: Has NASA discovered aliens? Again? https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/13/has-nasa-discovered-aliens-aga/ Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:25:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: StevoR https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/13/has-nasa-discovered-aliens-aga/#comment-507927 Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:25:09 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/13/has-nasa-discovered-aliens-aga/#comment-507927 @ ^ Greg Laden : Fair enough then. I must’ve missed seeing that there, sorry.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/13/has-nasa-discovered-aliens-aga/#comment-507926 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:34:38 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/13/has-nasa-discovered-aliens-aga/#comment-507926 Stevo, yeah, I did actually link to my blog post on that earlier announcement.

To be fair, at least in my opinion, NASA did not actually do what most bloggers screamed at them for doing. And, I should mention that when I said that back then, some of those bloggers turned on me like hyenas on a bleeding impala. It was a fairly embarrassing moment for the science blogsophere, not just for NASA. But we only remember the arsenic.

]]> By: daedalus2u https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/13/has-nasa-discovered-aliens-aga/#comment-507925 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:53:12 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/13/has-nasa-discovered-aliens-aga/#comment-507925 I think it will be about findings but also about funding. Kepler is costing $17 million a year to keep it running.

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/126242378.html

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110906/full/477142a.html

I think the tea partiers in congress want to cut it. Why? Because they can, and because it will piss off those liberal intellectuals who care about science.

I suspect the representative from Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) will be there to discuss private funding to keep it operational.

]]> By: StevoR https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/13/has-nasa-discovered-aliens-aga/#comment-507924 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:31:07 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/13/has-nasa-discovered-aliens-aga/#comment-507924 For those who may have forgotton or want more info – check out :

http://www.slate.com/id/2295724/

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http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/11/30/snowballing-speculation-over-a-nasa-press-conference/

(Before press conference.)

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http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/12/02/nasas-real-news-bacterium-on-earth-that-lives-off-arsenic/

(After press conference – for comparison purposes – science blogging community as anthropological study? 😉 )

(Hope its okay to post these links for another blog -okay netiquette~wise? Apologies & please let me know if not.)

BTW. Thought I saw something on facebook just now~ish about a NASA press conference for 10 am today on the future of manned Space Exploration? Could be mistaken or confused o’course. Watch this space?

]]> By: Eric Lund https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/13/has-nasa-discovered-aliens-aga/#comment-507923 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:50:58 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/13/has-nasa-discovered-aliens-aga/#comment-507923 What Stevo @3 said. They are announcing a GlamourPub (the press release mentions a “Science Journal” embargo, and it is the usual time of the week for announcing a publication in Science). It might be something truly interesting, or it might be something that makes a big immediate splash and then fades in less than a year. The arsenic lifeforms paper was in the latter category.

]]> By: StevoR https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/13/has-nasa-discovered-aliens-aga/#comment-507922 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:59:25 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/13/has-nasa-discovered-aliens-aga/#comment-507922 Hmm .. there’s a bit of a track record of NASA hyping up press conferences with an air of mystery and then letting us down – the arsenic lifeforms paper being the most recent / memorable exmple. I hope this doesn’t up as another anti-climax.

]]> By: Ashley Moore https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/13/has-nasa-discovered-aliens-aga/#comment-507921 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 08:31:31 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/13/has-nasa-discovered-aliens-aga/#comment-507921 Q: Has NASA discovered alien life?
George Lucas: NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

]]> By: Drivebyposter https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/13/has-nasa-discovered-aliens-aga/#comment-507920 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 04:04:26 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/13/has-nasa-discovered-aliens-aga/#comment-507920

Which can only mean one thing, right?

That George Lucas is going to “digitally enhance” the Earth?

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