Popular Post Waspie_Dwarf Posted April 10, 2017 Popular Post #1 Share Posted April 10, 2017 NASA to Reveal New Discoveries in News Conference on Oceans Beyond Earth Quote NASA will discuss new results about ocean worlds in our solar system from the agency’s Cassini spacecraft and the Hubble Space Telescope during a news briefing 2 p.m. EDT on Thursday, April 13. The event, to be held at the James Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters in Washington, will include remote participation from experts across the country. Read More: NASA 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vorg Posted April 10, 2017 #2 Share Posted April 10, 2017 I look forward to Thursday's briefing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Why not Posted April 11, 2017 #3 Share Posted April 11, 2017 I know statisticly there should be life through out the universe, but I often wonder if we looked for hundreds of year and never found any other signs of life what we would make of it. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pokingjoker Posted April 11, 2017 #4 Share Posted April 11, 2017 its truly a numbers game, we could indeed look for ten thousand years and never find a sign, or poof there it is right next door 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pokingjoker Posted April 11, 2017 #5 Share Posted April 11, 2017 ultimately there has to be life out there somewhere, the numbers dont lie, its just a matter of time 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspie_Dwarf Posted April 12, 2017 Author #6 Share Posted April 12, 2017 After doing a bit of digging on some of the more reputable sites I found a story which I now can't find again (which may mean that it was accidentally published before the embargo was lifted or that I am just rubbish at googling). It seems that what NASA is going to announce tomorrow is that they had discovered that hydrothermal activity on Enceladus is converting carbon dioxide into methane.This implies that there are possible habitable zones in the ocean of Enceladus. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldorado Posted April 13, 2017 #7 Share Posted April 13, 2017 This it? http://astrobiology.com/2017/04/hydrothermal-activity-in-the-seas-of-enceladus-implications-for-habitable-zones.html 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherry Gibson Posted April 13, 2017 #8 Share Posted April 13, 2017 On 4/11/2017 at 7:52 AM, Why not said: I know statisticly there should be life through out the universe, but I often wonder if we looked for hundreds of year and never found any other signs of life what we would make of it. I would think that with technologies help, we should continue looking ever so carefully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timothy Posted April 13, 2017 #9 Share Posted April 13, 2017 (edited) 13 hours ago, Waspie_Dwarf said: After doing a bit of digging on some of the more reputable sites I found a story which I now can't find again (which may mean that it was accidentally published before the embargo was lifted or that I am just rubbish at googling). It seems that what NASA is going to announce tomorrow is that they had discovered that hydrothermal activity on Enceladus is converting carbon dioxide into methane.This implies that there are possible habitable zones in the ocean of Enceladus. It looks like you're on the money, this has just popped up in the last two hours: http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/space/200-billion-reasons-why-were-not-alone-and-one-is-coming-tonight/news-story/a474bbd89e9165e0ab4284057a3d0137'NASA is due to announce within hours conditions for life exist on one of Saturn’s 62 moons. That, it turns out, is just the beginning.' Edit: And another quick little quote from the article says; ' Extrapolating that out to the whole universe, this means that there are up to 40 billion trillion potentially habitable planets out there. ' I don't care what anyone says, 40 billion trillion is a good number to work with. 40,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.00 Edited April 13, 2017 by Timonthy Edit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merc14 Posted April 13, 2017 #10 Share Posted April 13, 2017 Quote Nasa announce one of Saturn's moons could support alien life in our solar system There might be alien life in our own solar system, Nasa has announced. All of the necessary things to support life have been found on another icy world inside our own neighbourhood. Enceladus — one of the moons that orbits Saturn — has chemicals that when found on Earth tend to indicate life, suggesting that there might be living things might be under its icy shell. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/nasa-announcement-today-alien-life-exist-saturn-enceladus-cassini-hydrogen-plume-hydrothermal-a7681821.html 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Why not Posted April 13, 2017 #11 Share Posted April 13, 2017 On April 11, 2017 at 7:08 PM, seanjo said: It means little, the Universe is huge, our little corner of it may only contain us as an intelligent and space fairing species, but that doesn't mean the Universe isn't teaming with intelligent life. I was thinking in regards of finding other worlds with everything needed right there for life as we know it, and not finding any. Just kinda a thought I have about how we would interpret it. I'll go with the statistics, but just a curiosity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FateAmeniableToChange Posted April 13, 2017 #12 Share Posted April 13, 2017 Waspie_Dwarf i think i saw same link as you yesterday too, i think it may have been at ScienceDaily? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merc14 Posted April 15, 2017 #13 Share Posted April 15, 2017 (edited) Some more details on the Cassini dive through the plume. http://www.space.com/36455-saturn-moon-enceladus-energy-source-life.html?utm_source=sp-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20170414-sdc This plunge was special in several ways. For one thing, it was Cassini's deepest-ever dive through the plume; the probe got within a mere 30 miles (49 km) of Enceladus' surface. In addition, Cassini's Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer (INMS) instrument alternated between "open-source" and "closed-source" modes during the encounter, rather than sticking to closed source (the usual routine). Great stuff folks and the science team is pulling out all the stops to make an incredibly successful mission even greater. Imagine teh math and knowledge to get that probe so close to a 300 mile wide moon at such an incredible distance Edited April 15, 2017 by Merc14 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Merton Posted April 15, 2017 #14 Share Posted April 15, 2017 I would not be surprised at the finding of life around thermal vents all over the place. This may even be where life on earth originated, or survived the ice-earth that happened a couple of times. I'm sure this will be great for the biochemists. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khol Posted April 15, 2017 #15 Share Posted April 15, 2017 Life abounds around the thermal vents here on Earth. Microbes that have evolved and flourished around these vents through chemosynthesis are thought to be one of the oldest forms of life known. http://ocean.si.edu/ocean-videos/hydrothermal-vent-creatures 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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