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."

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Re:Pre-empting the obvious

[fiannaFailMan]

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.

to all those who disengaged their brain I ask, what would you do in their position? Hope your instruments work as designed without testing them? Either way, please devise a better test for life as we know it than life as we know it.

Thank you for being one of the first to post a non-redundant non-predictable post actually worth reading and that adds something to the discussion. I was wondering how much more scrolling I was going to have to do. If I had mod points I'd be making liberal use of the 'redundant', 'off topic' and 'overrated' tags around about now.