NASA Plays it Close to the Vest
November 21st, 2012 - 9:30 am
Huh:
As Curiosity prepares for Thanksgiving on Mars, rover fans have been left hanging about a discovery from the Red Planet that a NASA official has billed as a big one.
Just you wait, NASA says.
Not everyone wants to. Curiosity’s Facebook page had one early-morning comment from a fan: “WHAT IS IT?!?!” Mars watchers were expressing the same sentiments on Twitter.
I think I might know what it is.
Hmmm, contest, what unverifiable “discovery” could NASA trumpet that would further the political aims of the leftists:
1) Life on Mars. now, will the stooopid Christians please go away.
2) evidence of prior civilization that was wiped out by Martian global warming.
3) evidence of Islamic script on mars. That would make the Muslims feel good about themselves, right?
The Curiosity Rover found Jimmy Hoffa!
It’s a Twinkies factory.
…or, rather, a Twinkie left behind by a long extinct Martian civilization.
Not only that, but it is still fresh and edible.
I think NASA is playing this very poorly.
Now anything short of life will be a disappointment. But if it were life, it would have leaked. And it hasn’t. So it will be a disappointment.
My keys! I knew I dropped them somewhere.
– has been analyzed and found by Curiosty’s built-in cocktail shaker to make one hellavu Bloody Mary powdered mix.
o/t question -
why is pjmedia taking such a l-o-n-g time to load/refresh?
Someone wrote an essay explaining why the prayed every day that evidence of life off earth NEVER be found. The reasoning – ?
If life is found on Mars, extinct or not, that means life in the universe is far from miraculous, but maybe even rather common, given the “billy-uns and billy-uns” of stars out there. And given that as truth…. even if only one of every ten-thousand life-planets result in genuine intelligent life, then why have we NEVER truly seen any definitive evidence of it?
The very plausible answer that he comes up with is that intelligent life may be inherently self-immolating. Eventually, it achieves command of the forces of physics, chemistry, and biology to such an extent that it creates and builds such forces that soon get out of control, in a population crashing event… and that’s all she wrote – at least until an endless cycle of destruction and re-birth ramps up again. And maybe those forces are inherently achievable in a timeline that precedes, and thus precludes, advances in travel and communications that would lead to a “First Contact”.
It’s just a theory, but an interesting one. Good thing I look around, and can’t see any evidence of any kind of civilization threatening forces out there her on this planet of intelligent life… nope, no sireee, nothing of the sort.
Um… right?
I prefer an alternative theory: somebody has to be first. Besides, given the age of the universe, even if the cosmos has spawned thousands of advanced civilizations that lasted millennia, it’s still unlikely that any two would exist at the same time.
It’s a chem lab robo, so I guess it’s an organic molecule closely associated with life. The momentousness of the find will scale with how closely associated with life the molecule is.
Jimmy Hoffa?
Kenneth?
The real killers?
Enquiring minds want to know.
The face on Mars looks like Obama?
The rest of the Mayan calendar.
Being out in the sticks of one of the spiral arms p’raps we just haven’t been sufficiently annoying as to attract any attention to ourselves. Lacking a physics tolerant of warp/hyper/fill-in-blank drive systems it’s a long way to anywhere from here. A really long way.