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NASA's LCROSS Spacecraft Discovers Life On Earth

Posted by timothy on from the that-was-the-control-group dept.

Matt_dk writes "On Saturday, Aug. 1, 2009, the LCROSS spacecraft successfully completed its first Earth-look calibration of its science payload. 'The Earth-look was very successful' said Tony Colaprete, LCROSS project scientist. 'The instruments are all healthy and the science teams was able to collect additional data that will help refine our calibrations of the instruments.' During the Earth observations, the spacecraft's spectrometers were able to detect the signatures of the Earth's water, ozone, methane, oxygen, carbon dioxide and possibly vegetation."

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  1. An early false-negative had them worried by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Turns out they were just over Detroit.

    1. Re:An early false-negative had them worried by Bacon+Bits · · Score: 3, Funny

      I'm offended! If you'd ever actually been to or lived in Detroit you'd know that it's full of rats and cockroaches.

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    2. Re:An early false-negative had them worried by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Turns out they were just over USA.

      There, fixed it for you.

  2. What gets me.... by mark-t · · Score: 4, Funny
    "possibly vegetation"

    I almost fell out of my chair when I read this

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    1. Re:What gets me.... by cgenman · · Score: 3, Funny

      We still have vegitation down here? Someone better tell Captain McCrea.

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    2. Re:What gets me.... by ae1294 · · Score: 2, Funny

      So this satalite will be sent out to discover the universes hippys?

      Ummmm NO.... Just where the aliens hide their weed...

  3. Colonization by Usually+Unlucky+ · · Score: 5, Funny

    We should mount a robotic mission to this place right away.

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    1. Re:Colonization by forkazoo · · Score: 4, Funny

      Forget robots, it's high time we put a MAN on the Earth!

      During the 1960's and 1970's, we sent several men from the Moon to the Earth. Tragically, all were stranded, and none ever returned to the Moon.

    2. Re:Colonization by nanospook · · Score: 2, Funny

      I bet they are still drinking beer at Hooters ;)

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    3. Re:Colonization by metaforest · · Score: 2, Funny

      Would that be thinking inside the box?

  4. Meanwhile, SETI... by DrYak · · Score: 3, Funny

    At the same time, we're still waiting from the SETI's calibration and observation to discover any trace of *Intelligence* on earth.

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  5. Re:But is it intelligent? by JuzzFunky · · Score: 3, Funny

    If intelligent life forms do exist on earth then why haven't they contacted me?

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  6. NASA' LCROSS Spacecraft Discovers Life On Earth by MrKaos · · Score: 4, Funny

    The search for intelligent life continues...

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  7. Sadly, by Hawthorne01 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... none of it was intelligent.

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  8. It's life, Jim by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's life, Jim, just as we know it, just as we know it, Jim.

    Beam me sideways, Scotty, nobody on this planet knows which way is up.

  9. Beam me up Scotty!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Theres no intelligent live down here!!

    1. Re:Beam me up Scotty!! by Shakrai · · Score: 4, Funny

      Theres no intelligent live down here!!

      Oh, the irony..... ;)

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    2. Re:Beam me up Scotty!! by treeves · · Score: 4, Funny

      I think it's a quote from Star Wars.

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    3. Re:Beam me up Scotty!! by Mithyx · · Score: 5, Funny

      No. Women visiting slashdot is still a theory.

    4. Re:Beam me up Scotty!! by ThePromenader · · Score: 2, Funny

      Zargog says that his brother was lynched after he landed in Mississippi - try landing in one of the blue-coloured states!

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  10. Re:But is it intelligent? by MaskedSlacker · · Score: 4, Funny

    They're outside of the faraday cage basement you're living in.

  11. Re:Pre-empting the obvious by Dragonslicer · · Score: 3, Funny

    2 predictions: * Lots of slashdot users trying to post something witty about why this is a new story * trolls saying how this is everything we should expect and therefore should ignore.

    Um, this is Slashdot. That's like betting that a coin toss will be either heads or tails.

  12. Re:It must be broken then by Neanderthal+Ninny · · Score: 2, Funny

    Looking for intelligent life on earth. Scanning. Scanning. Scanning...
    Segmentation fault. Core dumped.

  13. Oil? by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 4, Funny

    detect the signatures of the Earth's water, ozone, methane, oxygen, carbon dioxide and possibly vegetation

    What? No oil detector? This thing is useless!

  14. Whew! That was close... by crath · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...if it had found "intelligent life" that would have been a false positive.

  15. How about the intelligent life? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The satellite discovered life on Earth. Fine, we all knew that there is some. Now, if we were only able to positively establish an existence of the intelligent life, that would be even better.

  16. The UHCD was ditched by GameboyRMH · · Score: 2, Funny

    Late last year the planned UHCD (Unrefined HydroCarbon Detector) unit was ditched for a PGMCD (Potentially Generous Media Corporation Detector) unit.

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