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Curious NASA Pre-Announcement
CrtxReavr was one of a small avalanche of readers to let us know about a
press conference NASA scheduled for Thursday at 2pm to discuss an "astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life." I've heard rumors ranging from "proof of life on Titan" to "first contact," depending on how optimistic/crazy you are.
If there is life swimming in a big ocean under the ice of Europa, the question becomes: how does it taste?
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
You just had to ruin it, didn't you?
right...
Welcome our astrobiological overlords.
Did they find the ancient gene?
They want you talking about aliens instead of TSA Gate Rape and Wikileaks. Simple as that.
One of the NASA guys got laid!
Way to blow your shot at FR1ST CN0TACT post. Nice going.
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
They found Jita, but their probe got ganked trying to dock with the docking station. $300m in PLEX were lost
It's the classic, "amino acid X found in space", that comet they swooshed by recently would be a good target for announcing "amino acid y found on comet".
Then again it's too classic, so it definitely have to be MASS RELAY FOUND IN PLUTONIAN ORBIT!
This does meet all the criteria.
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
http://www.google.com/search?q=grandstanding
Please help metamoderate.
I, for one, would welcome our new alien-insect overlords!
Our new alien-cephalopod overlords will be displeased by your racially insensitive remarks.
They found Fwiffo on Pluto.
Everybody gets what the majority deserves.
I am hoping for a GCU so I can get my god damn drug glands.
Somebody wikileak this thing!
"NASA finds extraterrestrials...Little Grey Men With Probes," Says Slashdot Poster RsG!
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
One of the astrobiology guys just saved a bunch of money on his car insurance.
Oh yeah, because that's one sure fire way of getting along with the stellar neighbours. Send them some "free" music today then, in a few weeks time, the RIAA sends in the lawyers and all their base belong to us...
Um, 3 - profit???
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
Please let it be a black monolith on the moon. We're only nine years late.
I write sci-fi for metalheads
Perhaps the Beatles will finally be available on the International Space Station?
I am hoping for a GCU so I can have sex with a spaceship.
I only deal with meta-chicken. Not a metaphor, but instead, meta-fried.
Once, there was a murder of crows who were harassing some horses in the paddock near my barn. I yelled at them, told them that corral-ation wasn't caws-ation, but apparently they thought I was simply winging it.
Also:
Linux is forking good
And Windows is forking not.
I'm speaking of course
Of a call in the source
Just one of them has got
If you need your code
To go down both roads
When choice becomes a Y
Then Linux is better
The one to get her
Forking day and night
Fork, fork, fork, fork
Fork, fork, fork, fork
Forkety-fork
Fork-fork-fork.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
...no, this does not mean little grey men with probes.
You mean, the TSA? (Sorry, I just couldn't resist the opportunity!)
MCSE? No, sir...I don't do Windows. Yes, I am an idealist. What's your point?
I'd personally like to see more research into the large, mysterious and likely uninhabitable world of Uranus.
Meh. CommanderTaco made first contact with Uranus years ago. BAZINGA!
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." - Napoleon Bonaparte
I, for one, welcome our new alien overlords. It will either be a case of 'in Soviet Russia' or 'Yoda' speak - I'm not quite sure yet. Or, firmly putting my sparkly tin-foil hat on, perhaps they (TPTB) will reveal that the moon =really is= a Death Star! Where's my lightsaber! :-)
Not only alien life, they have a trove of hundreds of thousands of documents from the alien government! Describing advanced graft and corruption abilities that are centuries beyond our own!
My guess is that it's more like "We are the extra terrestrials. Pay no attention to wikileaks."
Just wait till Wikileaks dumps extra terrestrials data.