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Big News From Mars? Rover Scientists Mum For Now - zenmaster - 11-20-2012
"Grotzinger says they recently put a soil sample in SAM, and the analysis shows something earthshaking. "This data is gonna be one for the history books. It's looking really good," he says."
http://www.npr.org/2012/11/20/165513016/big-news-from-mars-rover-scientists-mum-for-now
RE: Big News From Mars? Rover Scientists Mum For Now - Patrick - 11-20-2012
Yeah I saw that. Here's hoping this one is really impressive.
RE: Big News From Mars? Rover Scientists Mum For Now - zenmaster - 11-21-2012
(11-20-2012, 10:37 PM)Patrick Wrote: Here's hoping this one is really impressive.Why do you need to be impressed?
RE: Big News From Mars? Rover Scientists Mum For Now - Conifer16 - 11-21-2012
What are your thoughts on it zen? If you have any. :-)
RE: Big News From Mars? Rover Scientists Mum For Now - Oceania - 11-21-2012
he needs to be impressed because it'll be fun!
gosh why can't they just blurt it out. would make my troubles with the tribbles seem less massive if something majorly awesome happened.
""How many composers would actually compose music if they were told no one else could listen to their compositions? How many painters would make a painting if they were told no one else could see them?" says Zare. It's the same for scientists. "The great joy of science is to be able to share it. And so you want to say, 'Isn't this interesting? Isn't that cool?' ""
another example why scientists aren't artists. artists would and DO make art even if noone else sees it. what a crummy assumption! i totally would paint even if noone would see them, i don't give a rats ass if someone sees them, i like the actual painting part more. and i get to see them. apparently those scientist guys just like to show off their work which is lies anyway since there IS life on mars and it's in the form of earth people.
RE: Big News From Mars? Rover Scientists Mum For Now - Guardian - 11-21-2012
It's going to be organic matter surely.
RE: Big News From Mars? Rover Scientists Mum For Now - Tenet Nosce - 11-21-2012
I realize the value of "caution" when announcing these types of discoveries. On the other hand, I find it somewhat humorous that it would be so "shocking" to find evidence of life on other planets in our solar system.
Ironically- the notion that Earth is the only planet with life on it comes from religious dogma, not science.
Scientifically speaking, since we know there is life on our planet, the reasonable assumption to make is that- in some form- life exists (did exist, will exist) on every planet, given some level of water and atmosphere.
RE: Big News From Mars? Rover Scientists Mum For Now - reeay - 11-21-2012
This is the first image taken from the Rover:
![[Image: mars-rover-curiosity-first-image.jpg?1344233162]](http://i.space.com/images/i/20166/iFF/mars-rover-curiosity-first-image.jpg?1344233162)
Then, they took this:
Quite shocking to find fido...survived all these years after being left by former inhabitants of mars.
This is shocking too:
![[Image: Mars_Rover_Photo.jpg]](http://5thworld.com/5WJ/pix/Mars_Rover_Photo.jpg)
I joke!
RE: Big News From Mars? Rover Scientists Mum For Now - Patrick - 11-21-2012
(11-21-2012, 12:56 AM)zenmaster Wrote:(11-20-2012, 10:37 PM)Patrick Wrote: Here's hoping this one is really impressive.
Why do you need to be impressed?
It would just be cool. There's nothing else to it. It's like watching sci-fi in a way.
RE: Big News From Mars? Rover Scientists Mum For Now - zenmaster - 11-22-2012
Quote:A spokesman for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is managing the project, appeared to pour cold water Wednesday on the hopes of space enthusiasts looking forward to an earth-shattering discovery. "John was delighted about the quality and range of information coming in from SAM during the day a reporter happened to be sitting in John's office last week. He has been similarly delighted by results at other points during the mission so far," spokesman Guy Webster told AFP. "The scientists want to gain confidence in the findings before taking them outside of the science team. As for history books, the whole mission is for the history books," Webster said.
http://phys.org/news/2012-11-life-mars-nasa-rows.html
RE: Big News From Mars? Rover Scientists Mum For Now - Cyan - 11-22-2012
I call prothean.
damnit, 20 minutes late
or possibly a few decades too early.
RE: Big News From Mars? Rover Scientists Mum For Now - Oceania - 11-22-2012
Don Cheadle survived there too.