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Curiosity has "not detected any definitive evidence of Martian organics"
- th0ma5 14y agoI fully expected this is to be something like that despite their clean-room standards of handling the rover a bit of hair or skin did wind up in the thing somehow.
- bprater 14y agoWhy even say anything in the first place?
- zheng 14y agoTo quell expectations. Nothing is worse than announcing that you have found something very interesting (scientifically), only for the press to report "NASA doesn't find aliens, should funding be cut?"
- biot 14y ago"in the first place" would imply that they don't make the initial announcement, so there would have been nothing to quell.
- goodcanadian 14y agoThey haven't (or at least hadn't) made any announcement. The only announcement was for a press conference on December 3 to give an update. The rumour mill provided the rest.
- tokenadult 14y agoThis is a good response to the active thread yesterday based on second-hand speculation. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4841887 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4841887
- jayfuerstenberg 14y agoBut now they're reporting they found plastic ( http://nasaupdatecenter.us/press.html http://nasaupdatecenter.us/press.html ) which on Earth at least is created by petrochemical compounds caused by... life. If nothing else, we know "where" to focus our search for extraterrestrial life.
- huxley 14y agoApparently that's a fake site: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy.html http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy.html