{"id":10125,"date":"2011-09-13T22:38:13","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T22:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/09\/13\/has-nasa-discovered-aliens-aga\/"},"modified":"2011-09-13T22:38:13","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T22:38:13","slug":"has-nasa-discovered-aliens-aga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/13\/has-nasa-discovered-aliens-aga\/","title":{"rendered":"Has NASA discovered aliens? Again?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:E_t_the_extra_terrestrial_ver3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-536b557b10f0df6a73917844e1a08e82-ET_photo_from_wikipedia-thumb-300x217-69128.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-536b557b10f0df6a73917844e1a08e82-ET_photo_from_wikipedia-thumb-300x217-69128.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>Probably not, but they are cagily announcing a rather unusual press conference that has <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/12\/nasas_new_organism_the_meaning.php\">a certain familiar ring to it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. &#8212; NASA will host a news briefing at 11 a.m. PDT, Thursday, Sept. 15, to announce a new discovery by the Kepler mission. The briefing will be held in the Syvertson auditorium, building N-201, at NASA&#8217;s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. The event will be carried live on NASA Television and the agency&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/ntv\">website<\/a>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Kepler mission is focused on finding Earth-size planets in the Goldilocks Zone, where, say, alien life could live.  But of course it wouldn&#8217;t be alien to themselves, you understand.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting and potentially strange but it gets stranger:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A representative from Industrial Light &#038; Magic (ILM), a division of Lucasfilm Ltd., will join a panel of scientists to discuss the discovery.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which can only mean one thing, right?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/home\/hqnews\/2011\/sep\/HQ_M11-192_Kepler_Briefing.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Probably not, but they are cagily announcing a rather unusual press conference that has a certain familiar ring to it. MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. &#8212; NASA will host a news briefing at 11 a.m. PDT, Thursday, Sept. 15, to announce a new discovery by the Kepler mission. The briefing will be held in the Syvertson auditorium, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/13\/has-nasa-discovered-aliens-aga\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Has NASA discovered aliens? Again?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[191],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2Dj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}