faetal on 25/11/2012 at 13:26
No idea, but if you'd rather play it safe (I use AVG and got no warning), just google "zinc world hypothesis".
Dia on 26/11/2012 at 12:59
Well
that certainly let the wind out of my sails. So, the discovery made won't be 'earthshaking', but will be 'interesting', yet is being touted as having the potential to be 'historical'.
K. I'll stop holding my breath then.
SubJeff on 26/11/2012 at 15:09
Are you really this dumb?
catbarf on 26/11/2012 at 15:47
Quote Posted by Lazarus411
I think when you're dealing with multi-billion dollar projects, you're going to have to justify and advertise your department, otherwise it's going to be easier for the government to cut, cut, cut especially in these times.
How would claiming a discovery and then saying it was nothing after all do anything to earn them funding? It could buy them what, a week?
Renzatic on 26/11/2012 at 17:02
Quote Posted by catbarf
How would claiming a discovery and then saying it was nothing after all do anything to earn them funding? It could buy them what, a week?
The Segway effect. We all saw how well it worked out for them, right?
Honestly, I don't think they've discovered life, but they've probably found some shocking evidence of past life. It could be something relatively low key but still interesting, like methane deposits, or something as mind blowing and history changing as oil seeping through the dirt. The latter would show that there wasn't just life on Mars, but a ton of it, and relatively complex at that.
Renzatic on 26/11/2012 at 17:42
NASA isn't generally a hype generating source of news. If anything, they downplay everything they do, unless it's something truly historic.
And hell, why do they have to generate more hype for funding? They've successfully flew two tons of robot truck across 300,000,000 km of space and landed it on an extraterrestrial surface. After doing that, they have absolutely no reason to be a bunch of media whore cockteases.
If they said they've found something interesting, then chances are good it's gonna be something interesting.
Ulukai on 26/11/2012 at 18:43
Well, I'm sure it didn't involve the sentence fragment, "...like a mofo."
Pyrian on 26/11/2012 at 23:12
Doesn't Congress pass budgets in the U.S.? I remember reading that. :p
EDIT: Just sick of the tendency for the presidency to get the blame/credit for everything that happens in their term.
Peanuckle on 28/11/2012 at 23:25
Quote Posted by Renzatic
NASA isn't generally a hype generating source of news. If anything, they downplay everything they do, unless it's something truly historic.
And hell, why do they have to generate more hype for funding? They've successfully flew two tons of robot truck across 300,000,000 km of space and landed it on an extraterrestrial surface. After doing that, they have absolutely no reason to be a bunch of media whore cockteases.
If they said they've found something interesting, then chances are good it's gonna be something interesting.
I remember when they made a big fuss about an "incredible new discovery about extraterrestrial life" and everyone thought that they found aliens.
Instead they found microbes that could do passably well in an arsenic-based environment, on Earth. They said it was suggestive that life could evolve outside our own setting. Everyone was disappointed.
Renzatic on 29/11/2012 at 01:28
Eh, it's usual nerd overexcitement. They weren't playing the media so much as they were actually honest to god excited about some microbes.
