Hm, that time EST must be 7 PM in the UK.
I suspect it'll be "just" about chemicals and substances such as carbon, water, and certain planets found in other solar systems? But if it's more than that it could be considerably interesting. Thanks for the heads-up.
All the same, as the recent mentions of Thompson's book indicate, I don't really see UFOs as nuts-and-bolts "spaceships" necessarily at all from our precise universe. Just IMHO.
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Something of interest...
NASA will hold a news conference at 2PM EST on Thursday, December 2, to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe. The news conference will be held at the NASA Headquarters auditorium in Washington, D. C., and will be broadcast live on NASA Television and streamed on NASA's website at: http://www.nasa.gov .
Looks like it's going to be pretty disappointing. The Telegraph is already publishing the data online, and a rather more down-beat net site is:
http://www.geekosystem.com/nasa-press-conference-arsenic/
It's about a "different" form of life found on earth some time back... in California.
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NASA Proves Alien Life Is On Earth NOW
Something of interest...
NASA will hold a news conference at 2PM EST on Thursday, December 2, to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe. The news conference will be held at the NASA Headquarters auditorium in Washington, D. C., and will be broadcast live on NASA Television and streamed on NASA's website at: http://www.nasa.gov .
The news released turned out to be considerably more interesting than I'd expected. NASA haven't found alien spaceships, or made contact with another planet. But they have found that life-forms totally different to any possessing the supposed prerequisites for life can exist - for some do, right here on earth. You might say that there are "alien life-forms on earth". Therefore they can exist elsewhere:
http://www.sandiego.com/news/nasa-finds-alien-life-form-in-california
The argument in favor of extraterrestrial life somewhere out beyond the cosmos gained a little momentum today. NASA scientists announced that bacteria theyd found deep down in the mud at Mono Lake in California was able to live on arsenic basically, poison rather than phosphorous. Why all the noise? Phosphorous, and not arsenic, has long been considered one of the six building blocks of life along with carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, and sulfur. Until now, nothing known to science has been able to consume arsenic and survive, with or without phosphorous.
No, scientists did not discover space aliens in that mud. But they did find a radically new life form that shares no known biology with any living thing on the planet earth. Naturally, this opens the door for increased speculation that such organisms could live abroad, and not just here, but elsewhere in the universe. The experiment was led by Felisa Wolfe-Simon, a NASA astrobiology fellow at the United States Geological Survey in Menlo Park, California.
NASA administrators said today that this finding "will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life." Think Mars, and the Viking space ships that failed to turn up anything even resembling life way back in 1976. But those probes werent looking for life forms that had learned to live outside the box formed by the six known building blocks. Mono Lakes little arsenic-eaters will change all of that.
This is in fact a considerably important finding. We've been looking for other forms of life inside too many presupposed boxes.
I also rather like the witty article-title, "Do The Arsenic Microbes Come In Peace?" 🙂 [DLMURL] http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2010/12/ask-an-expert-do-the-arsenic-microbes-come-in-peace.html [/DLMURL]
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John Lennon saw a close-up UFO
I am grateful to a friend, who is a great local song writer and central to a rock group for just telling me that John Lennon saw a classic-style flying saucer pretty close-up. The link, while it lasts, is on BBC2 radio i-player: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ww4yz
Lennon was at the time sober, not on drugs, and it was in the early 1970s in New York. He took photos of a flying saucer very near to him, and called out "Take me with you!". It's narrated by May Pang, whom he had an 18-month affair with which Yoko didn't seem to mind. The UFO was simply hovering over a building next to the Dakota Building where he was later shot.
Photos were taken by Lennon (as I recall from just hearing it) and they all turned out blank! They'd been wiped out somehow.
If you go to the link, you have to wait about 5 mins for it to get to this story on i-player radio. What a remarkable story!!!! Just that it happened and has never till now come out. He was recording "Walls and Bridges" at the time.
P.S. I am told by my rock friend that this is no new news at all. I haven't done it, but he says Google is replete about this episode. But I'd never heard of it.
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Interesting story! I have my own interesting/funny story - on wednesday night I got a phone call from the old lady who lives across the road from our cottage. She says to go outside because there's a UFO in the sky! My heartbeat raced and I grabbed the camera, complete with 300mm zoom lens for some amazing shots 🙂 Couldn't see anything! Went back inside and called her back and she says it was just below the brightest star (Venus I think?) and there were 3 or 4 lights in a vertical formation that had been there for around 20mins and kept going up and down. She said at one point a light came from the left and merged with one of the main ones. She said it was still there so I ran out again. Squinted, zoomed, shot a few and zoomed in on Venus but couldn't see anything!
I called her a bit later and she said she couldn't see anything as it had clouded over now. I was about to go to bed so thought I would check again and it was a clear sky. Then I realised the old lady is blind as a bat and had just been in for an operation on her eyes 🙂 She said she saw the same thing a couple of years ago and who knows, maybe they only showed for her! Maybe she had been on the pop though 🙂
Anyway, went to bed bitterly disappointed, thinking of what could have been. I could have had some great photos and video 🙁