Keeping Alien Samples Safe For Study

Metrollica writes: "Space.com features an article describing NASA's plans to prepare the Johnson Space Center that could one day house extraterrestrial life." An excerpt from the article: "It's human nature to clean for company more thoroughly than one would for oneself, but nowhere is this truth taken to greater extremes than at the Johnson Space Center. NASA's setting new standards of cleanliness in its labs that handle samples returning from space. And their efforts are laying the groundwork for samples that might some day contain evidence of extraterrestrial life from Mars, Europa, and other points little known."

Comments

Blake's 7 / Farscape

[FatRatBastard]

I've always thought Farscape and Blake's 7 were both similar in character makeup and plot arc (which is a good thing.. they're both awesome SciFi). My vote has to go to Rygel because he's such an unapologetic self centered sonofabitch, and he reminds me a lot of Avon. A refreshing change from the normal "lets help humanity (alienity???), be a nice guy/girl/amorphous blob" type of central character in your average SciFi claptrap.

Roswell, anyone?

[Jin Wicked]

Although I am seriously skeptical of any actual Alien beings already in captivity (or storage) by the government, I do tend to think that they know somewhat more about the space program in general than they're letting on.

Is it possible that some of this news could be gradually preparing the public to accept the idea that there is proof of life elsewhere in the universe? I imagine most people would not have much of a difficult time accepting this, but there are groups (I believe) that would have a difficult time dealing with the fact that life exists anywhere beyond Earth.

I just wonder if they're preparing for something they might get, or preparing us for what they've already got.

(I could also be listening to Art Bell too much...)

I don't think so

[xX_sticky_Xx]

Yep, I think you've been listening to too much Art Bell.

Roswell was most likely just a smokescreen to divert attention from the fact that Nazi scientists were working for the US to develop their rocketry program. They probably realized that if they produced "evidence" of a crashed saucer and then quickly backtracked and denied it (substituting a weather balloon for the saucer) that people would think there was a conspiracy to cover up the alien crash. Worked pretty damn good. Meanwhile, no one is even thinking about having the former enemy on the public payroll.

That, my friend, is the real conspiracy.