NASA Finds Life?

I'm not sure what to make of this.

"http://cfn13.com/StoryHeadline.aspx?id=13873"

"Big NASA Announcement Today

NASA is planning to make a huge announcement today, about possible life
in our own solar system."

- Ed Kyle

Ed Kyle wrote:

I'm not sure what to make of this.

"http://cfn13.com/StoryHeadline.aspx?id=13873"

"Big NASA Announcement Today

NASA is planning to make a huge announcement today, about possible life
in our own solar system."

Life - it's only a theory!

http://cosmic.lifeform.org

On 9 Mar 2006 06:09:13 -0800, "Ed Kyle" wrote, in
part:

I'm not sure what to make of this.

"http://cfn13.com/StoryHeadline.aspx?id=13873"

"Big NASA Announcement Today

NASA is planning to make a huge announcement today, about possible life
in our own solar system."

Maybe they found another meteorite in Antarctica. I think we can safely
assume that NASA hasn't received a radio message that the aliens are
massed behind Jupiter and will be landing sometime next week. I think we
can even assume that neither Opportunity nor Spirit encountered saw
Utopia Planitia Hugo pop up his head out of a hole and see his own
shadow.

I mean, it would be great fun if either of those rovers sent back
pictures of a six-limbed reptilian humanoid with tusks and eyestalks,
riding a six-legged reptilian beast of burden, making off with an
incomparably beautiful red-skinned woman, and wearing only a harness
with a dagger, a sword, and some kind of pistol... but I don't expect
that to happen.

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On 9 Mar 2006 06:09:13 -0800, "Ed Kyle" wrote, in
part:

I'm not sure what to make of this.

"http://cfn13.com/StoryHeadline.aspx?id=13873"

"Big NASA Announcement Today

NASA is planning to make a huge announcement today, about possible life
in our own solar system."

It's too bad their PR head had to resign over a problem with his resume.
Their announcement might have been that the idea that life is possible
outside Earth is only based on an unproven theory, and so they were
giving up wasting taxpayer's money on such speculative and controversial
projects.

After all, all those people like Carl Sagan who talk about life in space
do so on the basis of Darwinism, not finding new interpretations of
Scripture!

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lid (John Savard) wrote in
:

On 9 Mar 2006 06:09:13 -0800, "Ed Kyle" wrote, in
part:

I'm not sure what to make of this.

"http://cfn13.com/StoryHeadline.aspx?id=13873"

"Big NASA Announcement Today

NASA is planning to make a huge announcement today, about possible life
in our own solar system."

It's too bad their PR head had to resign over a problem with his resume.

Incorrect. George Deutsch never was NASA's "PR head", just a political
appointee working in the PAO office.

David Mould was the AA for public affairs, and Dean Acosta the chief press
secretary, throughout the Deutsch scandal.


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On 9 Mar 2006 06:09:13 -0800, "Ed Kyle" wrote, in
part:

I'm not sure what to make of this.

"http://cfn13.com/StoryHeadline.aspx?id=13873"

"Big NASA Announcement Today

NASA is planning to make a huge announcement today, about possible life
in our own solar system."

When I first tried to look at this, I saw an error; now, the story has
been changed: NASA will announce a major discovery at 2 PM (EST, Florida
time) today, but earlier announcements may have been incorrect. So it is
now just a major discovery, not necessarily about life.

John Savard
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Ed Kyle wrote:


NASA is planning to make a huge announcement today, about possible life
in our own solar system."


Maybe I'm mistaken, but the third planet in our solar system does
indeed show some signs of possible life ;-).

SCNR
Andreas

Ed Kyle wrote:
I'm not sure what to make of this.

"http://cfn13.com/StoryHeadline.aspx?id=13873"

"Big NASA Announcement Today

NASA is planning to make a huge announcement today, about possible life
in our own solar system."

- Ed Kyle

From the Drudgereport.com

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash8na.htm


NASA'S CASSINI DISCOVERS POTENTIAL LIQUID WATER ON ENCELADUS
Thu Mar 09 2006 11:21:33 ET

**Exclusive**

[Press release set for 2 PM ET release]

NASA's Cassini spacecraft may have found evidence of liquid water
reservoirs that erupt in Yellowstone-like geysers on Saturn's moon
Enceladus. The rare occurrence of liquid water so near the surface
raises many new questions about the mysterious moon.

"We realize that this is a radical conclusion - that we may have
evidence for liquid water within a body so small and so cold," said
Carolyn Porco, Cassini imaging team leader at the Space Science
Institute, Boulder, Colo. "However, if we are right, we have
significantly broadened the diversity of solar system environments
where we might possibly have conditions suitable for living organisms."

High-resolution Cassini images show icy jets and towering plumes
ejecting huge quantities of particles at high speed. Scientists
examined several models to explain the process. They ruled out the idea
the particles are produced or blown off the moon's surface by vapor
created when warm water ice converts to a gas. Instead, scientists have
found evidence for a much more exciting possibility. The jets might be
erupting from near-surface pockets of liquid water above 0 degrees
Celsius (32 degrees Fahrenheit), like cold versions of the Old Faithful
geyser in Yellowstone.

"We previously knew of at most three places where active volcanism
exists: Jupiter's moon Io, Earth, and possibly Neptune's moon Triton.
Cassini changed all that, making Enceladus the latest member of this
very exclusive club, and one of the most exciting places in the solar
system," said John Spencer, Cassini scientist, Southwest Research
Institute, Boulder.

-more--2-

"Other moons in the solar system have liquid-water oceans covered by
kilometers of icy crust," said Andrew Ingersoll, imaging team member
and atmospheric scientist at the California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, Calif. "What's different here is that pockets of liquid water
may be no more than tens of meters below the surface."

"As Cassini approached Saturn, we discovered the Saturnian system is
filled with oxygen atoms. At the time we had no idea where the oxygen
was coming from," said Candy Hansen, Cassini scientist at NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena. "Now we know Enceladus is
spewing out water molecules, which break down into oxygen and
hydrogen."

Scientists still have many questions. Why is Enceladus so active? Are
other sites on Enceladus active? Might this activity have been
continuous enough over the moon's history for life to have had a chance
to take hold in the moon's interior?

In the spring of 2008, scientists will get another chance to look at
Enceladus when Cassini flies within 350 kilometers (approximately 220
miles), but much work remains after the spacecraft's four-year prime
mission is over.

"There's no question, along with the moon Titan, Enceladus should be a
very high priority for us. Saturn has given us two exciting worlds to
explore," said Jonathan Lunine, Cassini interdisciplinary scientist,
University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz.

Mission scientists report these and other Enceladus findings in this
week's issue of Science.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the
European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency.

JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology

Andreas Parsch wrote:
Ed Kyle wrote:


NASA is planning to make a huge announcement today, about possible life
in our own solar system."


Maybe I'm mistaken, but the third planet in our solar system does indeed
show some signs of possible life ;-).

Unfortunately, it appears not to be intelligent life.

http://cosmic.lifeform.org

Thomas Lee Elifritz ) wrote:
: Ed Kyle wrote:

: I'm not sure what to make of this.
:
: "http://cfn13.com/StoryHeadline.aspx?id=13873"
:
: "Big NASA Announcement Today
:
: NASA is planning to make a huge announcement today, about possible life
: in our own solar system."

: Life - it's only a theory!

I think they plan on adding to Rene Decartes. "I think, therefore I
am...alive". QED, life in the Solar System.

Eric

: http://cosmic.lifeform.org