NASA admits hiding 'really good' news from Martian soil It appears the Curiosity rover on Mars has had some exciting news, but NASA controllers have said that they're keeping quiet about it until the facts have been checked. "This data is gonna be one for the history books. It's looking really good," John Grotzinger, principal investigator for Curiosity told NPR. According to …
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If the instrument inadvertently carried air including methane from Earth, could it have also carried organic matter? I assume everything got zapped to sterilise it before departure, but such matter would remain.
Finding native living microorganisms would be quite fantastic, but that might mean that the planet would be quarantined, with no return trips allowed.
Hope they find life, might get funding for real space exploration, which in turn would enable (but not require) space exploitation, so maybe some day human beings can (a) preserve Earth more easily (b) gain energy and other resources from places besides Earth (c) actually live in places besides Earth. Having done all that, someday, humanity would (a) be more likely to survive (b) be capable, if desired, of exploring places light-years away. Who knows, we might someday either discover, or attract the attention of and find ourselves discovered by, some other intelligent species.
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That is what they are doing or not, as the case may be.
"If you've got something to tell us, tell us"
They will when they have.
Hope it's recognisable as life of evidence thereof.
That would be a beautiful bombshell for the religious nutters.
Just in time for Jebus day!
So a journalist calls you up and asks you to comment and you're not ready yet. Do you say: "nothing has been found". Well that's a lie. Do you tell them stuff before you've triple checked, knowing that you've been burned before by that. No. Do you say: "we will make an annoucement in due course." ? Sounds like the last is the only acceptable option. So if you don't like it, have a go at the journalists, not the scientists.*
(*note - am not saying you should have a go at the journalists.)
Yup, think the article's oversimplified it. Curiosity isn't designed to detect life directly, only the elements required for life (as we understand it), "organic" compounds and biosignatures (or evidence life existed).
Although if a ma-hoooo-sive spider crawled across the ground where a camera was pointing, they could probably claim that one
... after plotting the graph of n^2 + 9 + 9, arriving at an unusual shape, a uniformly curved line which somehow joins up with itself that science has yet to find a name for.
Can you think of a name for it? If you can, the Royal Mathematics Society would like to hear from you. Because they hold a competition each year to find a name for this figure. The final takes place in Nottingham on April the 4th of September. And you could win your school this computerised toast system. So, good luck!
Announced next month they say? Wouldn't happen to be on the 21st December would it? (Hey someone had to do say it) ;)
We have discovered life on a another planet, The written word is a lie, The"Book" is wrong, Mass riots on Earth take place which leads to Armageddon.
Wow can't wait ,Sounds exciting. heh
I thought the other 2 rovers and the phoenix lander had already chalked those up for themselves?
Anyhow well done to the NASA team for the work the rover is giving the science community and hope the news is really interesting to all - and not just a geologist wetting his pants over some metamorphic rock formation which may or may not point to yet more evidence that mars was once wet (or at the very least slightly damp to the touch)
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