It's life, Jim. But not as we know it.

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OwlHoot replied

2 December 2010, 09:53
Originally posted by SupremeSpod View Post

Why?

They're searching for intelligent life, not yer average dim prawn.

That CETI mob are wasting their time monitoring radio waves - If any aliens have ever visited the Solar System, they'll have left some neutrino generator parked at the centre of the Sun, sending highly directional beams to distant receivers.

As present technology can barely detect a single one of the torrent of natural neutrinos passing all round us and through us, we'd have no chance whatever (now and for the foreseeable future) of detecting an occasional artificial blip.
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SupremeSpod replied

2 December 2010, 08:38
Originally posted by BolshieBastard View Post

'Life as we don't know it' discovery could prove existence of aliens - Telegraph

Alien life right under our noses, apparently. Bet that SETI lot who've spent years running headless pc farms to find a signal are pretty pissed!

Why?

They're searching for intelligent life, not yer average dim prawn.
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TimberWolf replied

2 December 2010, 08:33
Seems like a non-story so far, except as far as it's another interesting extremofile.
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doodab replied

2 December 2010, 06:24
Originally posted by AtW View Post

oh ffs Nick, get back to those nurses!!!

I think, in his own way, Nick is surfing porn.

I think they will announce that god has contacted them and told them to stop wasting their time cos we are alone in the universe.
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Pondlife replied

1 December 2010, 22:35
Originally posted by shaunbhoy View Post

Groundhog Day!! I suggested a CUK holiday to just such a place only this evening!!

Spooky!!

True, but these little creatures had a slightly healthier diet. More arsenic, less bucky and deep fried haggis.
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shaunbhoy replied

1 December 2010, 22:17
Originally posted by Pondlife View Post

Some sort of life that existed in a particularly toxic environment

Groundhog Day!! I suggested a CUK holiday to just such a place only this evening!!

Spooky!!
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AtW replied

1 December 2010, 22:17
Originally posted by NickFitz View Post

I'm not sure how much confidence to place in the Telegraph's report, given that NASA's news conference tomorrow is about a paper being published in Science which is under embargo until 2pm EST.

Some have speculated that it may be something to do with Felisa Wolfe-Simon's research at Mono Lake (as she is one of the participants in tomorrows news conference), and it seems that the Telegraph has chosen to report that speculation as fact.

oh ffs Nick, get back to those nurses!!!
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NickFitz replied

1 December 2010, 21:40
I'm not sure how much confidence to place in the Telegraph's report, given that NASA's news conference tomorrow is about a paper being published in Science which is under embargo until 2pm EST.

Some have speculated that it may be something to do with Felisa Wolfe-Simon's research at Mono Lake (as she is one of the participants in tomorrows news conference), and it seems that the Telegraph has chosen to report that speculation as fact.
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Pondlife replied

1 December 2010, 21:25
Wasn't something similar covered in the "Blue Planet" series?

Some sort of life that existed in a particularly toxic environment caused by volcanic activity deep underwater?
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BolshieBastard started a topic It's life, Jim. But not as we know it.

1 December 2010, 21:11
It's life, Jim. But not as we know it.

'Life as we don't know it' discovery could prove existence of aliens - Telegraph

Alien life right under our noses, apparently. Bet that SETI lot who've spent years running headless pc farms to find a signal are pretty pissed!
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