[ToyCen File] Alien life may exists on Saturn's moon

More informative and less sensationalized article: http://www.newscientist.com/article...turn-moon.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

It's just suspected to be microbes. I guess you could call them 'aliens' if you want.

 

I dont believe in life, not even this life. We are plugged into the MATRIX.

 

That's no moon.

 

oh no! Zerg is coming! get ready for real life SC.

 

I'll be a dropship operator.

 

And we have a winner :grin:

Seriously, if this is true, then it would open up a lot of possibilities that other life forms do exist. In four billion years' time, will CF still exist? :grin:

 

That New Scientist article is pretty good. McKay is the most solid of all solid scientists, I think, and his quotes in that article display the right amount of skepticism. Very, very interesting results though!

I am resisting telling CSBs about McKay.

 

To provide a little historical context:

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Viking Data Still Cause Stir About Mars Life

NASA recently posted on its Web site detailed data collected at Mars 25 years ago by life-detection experiments aboard the Viking spacecraft. The scientific community's judgment on those findings is one of the longest running and most contentious debates in space science.

In 1976, two ingenious spacecraft soft-landed on Mars. Each was equipped with a miniature biology laboratory packed into less space than a domestic microwave oven. The three biology experiments within the package each produced some positive results that might have been associated with living organisms but the overall verdict at the time was that these results were caused by chemical rather than biological processes.

All these years later, scientists continue to glean information from the Viking data and still debate whether the results indicate life in the soils of Mars. The pendulum has swung back and forth between chemical and biological explanations for the Viking results.

The experiment

The Labeled Release (LR) experiment produced the most tantalizing results. Like most forms of life on Earth, when we consume food, some is processed and combined with oxygen to produce energy. The gas carbon dioxide is a product of that process and is present in our expired air. The clever idea with the LR experiment was that the carbon atoms in the food were radioactive and therefore could be detected in the air if a creature in the Martian soil processed the food and generated carbon dioxide (or some other gas containing carbon). In the LR experiment a radioactive broth was added to a sample of Martian soil in a closed chamber. A detector in a side chamber measured the amount of radioactivity in the air. A series of experiments was conducted to help eliminate non-biological processes. For example, some involved heating the soil to high temperature to sterilize any micro-organisms.

Viking scientists back on Earth got very excited when the first results from both Vikings were received. There was a burst of gas production when the broth was first added to the soil. This did not happen when the soil was sterilized -- as might be expected if micro-organisms had died. However, when the unheated sample was measured over several weeks the gas production levelled off, suggesting that any micro-organisms, if present, had failed to survive and grow. Also when more broth was added there was no substantial release of gas. These conflicting results, coupled with the results of other Viking experiments led most scientists to conclude that the LR results were produced by non-biological reactions due to (unknown) chemicals in the Martian soil.

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...the article continues at the link above.

But when people who dedicate their life to finding life outside Earth are given ambiguous results, there is a pretty good history of them interpreting the ambiguity as an unambiguous positive confirmation. Some people still are arguing back and forth about interpretation of the results of the Mariner mission experiment thirty years ago, even though officially the results were deemed negative.

 

"Life" is so crazy...

Floating plantets?.....A ****ing ball of fire that we circle around....which is also just floating around in the middle of nothing....

If i cut myself....in a couple days....it will be healed??....wtf?....HOW?

Only thing I look foward to when I die....Is maybe ill get some ****ing answers.....

WHY ARE WE HERE?

 

if you are plugged into the matrix, existence still exists

 

...or does it?

 

That's kind of crappy that this topic is lumped into the ToyCen files.

Little by little, there are signs pointing to life being elsewhere outside of Earth. Titan, Enceladus and even Mars are showing interesting clues. My money is on Europa. I can't wait to see what we know in 25 years. I do wonder what kind of impact it will have on society.

On another note, I also can't wait for results from Kepler.

 

If it's herpes, I'll help you out with treatment money, brother. I hate it when my clinic's lab results are late, too.

 

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