What NASA revealed today? Forecast: disappointing for the public, hope for 48 hours ago, NASA announced for Thursday afternoon December 2 press conference to report a finding related to the search for extraterrestrial life. On Tuesday, on my blog at Onda Cero, post to realizing the expectation created. I anticipated then charges seems quite late on credit. In addition, information has been reported that the journal Science on Friday will release a paper written by one of the scientists who will be present among those appearing by NASA. This article deals with life in an environment of arsenic and, possibly, terrestrial extremophile environments similar to those of Titan, a moon of Saturn. I set out below an article yesterday on the website of Onda Cero:
NASA's announcement has generated a wave rumors. To dispel will have to wait eight o'clock next Thursday afternoon, when the headquarters of the space agency will begin a round of prey called a few hours ago. According to a statement released NASA poe "is to present a finding that may have an impact on ls search for extraterrestrial life."
Nothing more is known. Since the announcement was made a flood of opinions and suspicions has flooded the scientific world. And the non-scientific. Many of the teletype and opinions appearing in the last hours predict that could be made available to findings of a "tiny" of extraterrestrial life. If it would be a scientific news of great interest, although 15 years ago and NASA made a similar announcement by submitting a meteorite originating from Mars in which there were traces of microbial life in a fossil. While that announcement had a big impact, generated scientific debate was heated but ultimately the thesis that, indeed, was an important indication of the existence of simple life off the planet. But it is also true that there are more daring: the unfounded false news "in its entirety, in recent months has spread like wildfire on the Internet about a notice on the existence of advanced extraterrestrial life would be confirmed with the call NASA's .
In La Rosa de los Vientos have followed with special interest in scientific research undertaken in recent years with the aim of finding extraterrestrial life. The findings so far are more than encouraging. However, what we could find out the NASA announcement made on Thursday may be disappointing, at least for those who expect to be publicized to a sensational discovery. With reservations, we report that the finding does not have to do either with the search for difererntes spacecraft on Mars or Saturn or the discovery that it is making the Kepler space telescope, which is expected location in the next two years several hundred Earth-like planets (and, therefore, able to accommodate some kind of life). In probable that the announcement has to do with the discovery of chemical circumstances that could have triggered some sort of life. It is even possible that this announcement does not even have to do with something beyond Earth, but with so-called extremophiles, life forms that arise in certain parts of the world that, initially, were very toxic to life. NASA has searched a lot in this direction in recent years. The answer will next Thursday. Meanwhile, the rumors do not stop: some argue that Wikileaks already knows the information and that NASA wants to get ahead of the revelation, while others, on the same line, remember that Bill Clinton has already used-in fact, the announcement was made by himself, the discovery in 1995 to divert media attention was focusing on their private scandals. That is, that this announcement would intend to stop as far as possible the scandal generated by the hundreds of thousands of documents that Wikileaks is revealing.
