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Perhaps NASA should be more cautious about holding a press on astrobiology, and with a Science embargo. Clearly everyone will immediately think of aliens, and f
by joelburget 16y ago
Perhaps NASA should be more cautious about holding a press on astrobiology, and with a Science embargo. Clearly everyone will immediately think of aliens, and for good reason. It's NASA, it's about astrobiology, and it's something big enough to embargo Science. They're just asking for all the alien stories. And let's be clear, these are not aliens.
- ugh 16y agoHolding a press conference for this pretty sweet discovery was completely justified. The language in the press release made it clear ahead of time that Nasa didn’t make any discovery related to life on other worlds, only a few overly eager bloggers spun crazy theories like that. Whoever is disappointed by this and claims that Nasa hyped too much doesn’t have her or his head screwed on right.
- joelburget 16y agoI agree that it's an amazing discovery. Admittedly I didn't read the actual press release so you're probably right that they acted correctly. I only read second hand accounts of what they were going to announce.