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Why even say anything in the first place?

• zheng 14y ago
  To 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 ago
      They 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.