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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. FP by 4D6963 · · Score: -1, Troll

    First Plant!

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  2. Re:Colonization by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    well we don't want to mess with any possible sentient beings, so make sure to put them in Detroit or Newark

  3. Re:What gets me.... by DriedClexler · · Score: 1, Troll

    "Yes! We did it! We did it! After years of searching, billions of dollars invested, and being subject to endless ridicule, we finally achieved our mission! We now have incontrovertible proof of intraterrestrial life!"

    "Um ... dude ... I think the goal is to find extraterrestrial life."

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  4. trolL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    BSDI is also dead, At my frrelance