NASA's LCROSS Spacecraft Discovers Life On Earth

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."

Comments

Re:Pre-empting the obvious

[PaganRitual]

Well, both your predictions are wrong. It appears that it's simply attracted about 50 people, all of whom think they are the first person to think of the fact that while it found life, NONE OF IT WAS INTELLIGENT HAW HAW HAW. Apparently a sign of intelligent life is realising that your ideas aren't new and that you've likely been beaten to them, therefore all those posters comments were self-prophecising. Well done chaps.

At any rate, this is a new story because, err ... it wanted to get to the other side. Did you make a typo there or something?

Also, this is everything we should have expected and therefore it should be ignored.

While we're at it, shouldn't we be spending this money on feeding the starving?

o hai

[theevildonkey]

Obvious cat is obvious

Absolutely Fabulous

[juliangamble]

Lacroix! Sweetie - Lacroix!