Extraterrestrial Life Breakthrough!

[Doug]

Have They Made Breakthrough In Search For Extraterrestrial Life?


NASA Sets News Conference on Astrobiology Discovery; Science Journal Has Embargoed Details Until 2 p.m. EST On Dec. 2 WASHINGTON --

NASA will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 2, to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life.

Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe.
The news conference will be held at the NASA Headquarters auditorium at 300 E St. SW, in Washington.

It will be broadcast live on NASA Television and streamed on the agency's website at http://www.nasa.gov.

For NASA TV streaming video and downlink information, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

See the press release here.

[Dardedar]

Are they finally going to come clean about Roswell? ...

[kwlyon]

Are they finally going to come clean about Roswell? ...

I'm being deported...but to tell the truth, I am rather happy about it....

[Doug]

I'm being deported....

You mean "abducted"? "Teleported"? If you're being deported, where are they sending you?

[kwlyon]

If you're being deported, where are they sending you?

Home....To Transylvania, on the planet of Transexual.

[Betsy]

wait.....what?

[Doug]

DOUG
Well, the "breakthrough" was that a bacterium can exist with arsenic as its diet.

Scientists said Thursday that they had trained a bacterium to eat and grow on a diet of arsenic, in place of phosphorus — one of six elements considered essential for life — opening up the possibility that organisms could exist elsewhere in the universe or even here on Earth using biochemical powers we have not yet dared to dream about.

See here.

And here I thought E.T. was coming!


"Say, would you happen to have any arsenic handy? I ran out."

[Savonarola]

Have They Made Breakthrough In Search For Extraterrestrial Life?

[Dardedar]

Well, I thought National Geographic did a pretty good job with this one:



I know a rather fundie church that always has National Geographic in their waiting room. They didn't have this issue (I looked).