mars announcement imminent?

[blink138]

well without falling for the other thread here "14 days of night announced by NASA" below this one, i am watching the fox news live now and the commentator said that at 1am tomorrow morning nasa have a special announcement regarding mars!?
pat

[casstony]

On ABC news today they mentioned something about liquid water - good but not quite as exciting as Martians.

[deanm]

'Informed speculation' is that NASA may reveal evidence for episodic flows of briny (but liquid) water.

Some of the nutters are suggesting the announcement would be of the discovery of life, but that's almost certainly not the case. The radiation environment on Mars' surface is extremely hostile.

And other tin-foil hatters are certain that NASA will reveal the presence of alien bases....

I think if either of the latter were the case, we wouldn't be waiting for a press conference - the President of the US would have been on live TV to make such a monumental announcement!

Time will tell.

Dean

[FlashDrive]

are you fair'dinkem......:face:

:P

[glend]

My research says the news conference is at 4:30am, Australian EDT on NASA TV streamed.

[casstony]

They could do an Orson Welles; alien bases sounds great. I'd appreciate a bit of new sci-fi with the lack of TV series at the moment.

[GrahamL]

Bases are long empty now because we are among you :ship2:

[gregbradley]

That was hilarious.:rofl:

Greg.

[deanm]

"Bases are long empty now because we are among you"

Great! Super! Cosmic!

So can you lay off now with the anal probes and abductions, thanks?!

Dean

[Steffen]

"Ladies and gentlemen, we're happy to announce that Mars is no longer considered a planet! It just didn't make the cut."

[DarkArts]

I liked the meme that went around a couple of years ago, bemoaning the slowness with which both mainstream media and the blogosphere kept up with scientific discoveries:

"Thankyou, you are the 1000th person to discover water on Mars".

[sil]

or

"ladies and gentlemen, google has a mars related doodle today"

[sil]

"All your base are belong to us" :)

[AussieTrooper]

NASA found them and was about to announce it, but the CIA told them not to. Hence why the reason for the announcement wasn't stated.
;)

[FlashDrive]

You watch .... your next GPS will have ' Google Maps ' for Mars :D

[blink138]

there already exists a google mars flash!
pat

[Suzy]

If we aren't allowed to investigate the water on Mars (and apparently Curiosity is only 50 km away from it) due to a planetary protection international treaty signed in1967, I wonder how we can test it further :shrug:. Where do we go now with science :confused2: .


Here’s why NASA’s Mars rovers are banned from investigating that liquid water (http://www.sciencealert.com/here-s-why-nasa-s-mars-rovers-are-banned-from-investigating-that-liquid-water)

Summary of the NASA briefing by Emily Ladawalla from The Planetary Society. (http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2015/09281219-nasas-mars-announcement.html)

[AussieTrooper]

Now I want to ask it for directions to the Olympus Mons visitor information centre.

[glend]

Suzy it is all about the level of decontamination conducted before it left earth. In order to 'engage' with the aquafier it would needed to have been through a more intense decontamination. They can't risk contamination at this point, so whatevrr is sent to analyse the water is only looking at and discovering Martian water composition and whatever it supports.

[doppler]

I found this an interestig read about space craft contamination.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reports_of_Streptococcus_mitis_on_t he_Moon