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[Bisnic]

They finally found the Prothean ruins??

 

[Rentahamster]

I'm not sure what I want more. Confirmation that life exists on Mars - so that we can study and learn something from it.


Or

Confirmation that life on Mars doesn't exist at all - so that we can go ahead and start terraforming it and conducting experiments.

 

[Dicer]

I want it to be something major, it will be something minor...

 

[Woody Invincible]

They finally found the Prothean ruins??

I for one welcome our new Asari overlords.

 

[Dreams-Visions]

They found Matt Damon alive?

 

[Stike]

The will announce they have found viruses. lol

Wouldn't be too far off, but I read some time ago that they might have inadvertently sent microbiotic Earth life to Mars inside the rover(s)... so we might find life that we have shot up there in the first place, lol

 

[Bisnic]

I for one welcome our new Asari overlords.

And our ultimate demise at the hands of the Reapers.

 

[gutshot]

NASA has a habit of hyping up discoveries that aren't major to the average person.

NASA doesn't hype up anything. They announce that they are going to have a press conference to announce some scientific finding(s) and the Internet starts speculating wildly.

 

[Interceptor]

Please be life.

 

[AColdDay]

I want it to be something major, it will be something minor...

It seems like there is a topic like this every couple of months and it is always something that I'm sure is cool to science nerds, but a wet fart to me.

It's like NASA is my toddler,
"HEY DAD I'VE GOT SOMETHING TO TELL YOU!"
"What is it, son?"
"I FOUND A BOOGER!"

 

[Lactose_Intolerant]

Something Something Ice

 

[superdeluxe]

Likely water related, dare to dream: evidence of microbes/virus/cell organisms

 

[PigSpeakers]

Isn't that the day the world is supposed to end?

 

[GashPrex]

I'm not saying its Aliens..But its Aliens.

 

[Fine Ham Abounds]

Source of the methane?

 

[cacildo]

Its never aliens

 

[Hip Hop]

It's gonna be nothing.

 

[Woody Invincible]

Resist or Serve

 

[Stike]

Isn't that the day the world is supposed to end?

Nah, that was yesterday.

 

[Escape Goat]

They found Uranus on Nars.

 

[Rentahamster]

Source of the methane?

He who smelt it dealt it.

 

[reckless]

Likely water related, dare to dream: evidence of microbes/virus/cell organisms

I really hope not, that would be really bad news.

 

[The Sarcastic Dude]

Will they find out that it needs moms?

 

[Monocle]

I'm not saying it's aliens but it's undoubtedly aliens. Prepare your bodies.

 

[Hexa]

NASA announces that they found oil on the moon.
And thus the next space race begins.

 

[Fine Ham Abounds]

Earth microbes that the rovers took with them are surviving and reproducing on Mars.

That'd suck.

Unless they've found proof that we were seeded from Mars, in which case, it would just be like returning a really overdue library book.

 

[Messypandas]

They've found Matt Damon

 

[PigSpeakers]

Nah, that was yesterday.

I heard there was one scheduled for the 28th though.

 

[Charles Foster Kane]

We found life on Mars!

Its microscopic tho.

And it's not actully life... more like death... it was alive even before the dinossaurs.

It's dead now. Theres nothing there actually.

That would be huge. I'd love it if it was that.

Mark Watney is alive.

lol

 

[Fenderputty]

probably something water related.

Is the one time presence o liquid water on Mars really a mystery at this point?

 

[besada]

The sound waves of Taylor Swift's 1989 were found scored into rocks more than four billion years old. No one has any idea how they got there.

I didn't say this, I am not here.

 

[xam3l]

That would be huge. I'd love it if it was that.

Of course it would be huge. But not the same kind of huge as many (myself included) would hope to be. I mean, if there is alive organism I would flip my mind.

 

[Monocle]

The sound waves of Taylor Swift's 1989 were found scored into rocks more than four billion years old. No one has any idea how they got there.

I didn't say this, I am not here.

I knew Swift's new jams were classic and timeless, but I couldn't have suspected how right I was.

 

[Setzer]

Making the announcement on the same day we're going to have that super blood moon. How appropriate.

 

[FriendlyGoat]

I get the feeling if it was something game-changing, and least in a way that would seem so to the general public, I imagine they would rush the announcement. I'm still intrigued to see what's up because this is some of the coolest shit we have ever done as humans, but it is a measured anticipation.

 

[ElBoxyBrown]

They found Matt Damon alive?

In your face Neil Armstrong.

 

[Huw_Dawson]

If it's the big 'we found serious signs of microbial life' one this time around, it'd be awesome. Just in time for SpaceX to shine.

 

[Stike]

Of course it would be huge. But not the same kind of huge as many (myself included) would hope to be. I mean, if there is alive organism I would flip my mind.

I wouldn't exactly be surprised. I read about algae from Earth actually staying alive at the exterior hull of the ISS, so why wouldn't microbiotic life be able to exist on Mars, too?

 

[Napoleonthechimp]

I assume it is another one of those bullshit discoveries that is a major deal to the scientific community but to the general public? Meh.

 

[jetjevons]

We found life on Mars!

Its microscopic tho.

And it's not actully life... more like death... it was alive even before the dinossaurs.

It's dead now. Theres nothing there actually.

That would be almost world changing news.

 

[HK-47]

Science reporting no doubt

 

[FiggyCal]

Science reporting no doubt

Boy are you going to look silly when they announce they've found signs of life.

 

[Zubz]

I assume it is another one of those bullshit discoveries that is a major deal to the scientific community but to the general public? Meh.

I wouldn't call it "bullshit" in the least, but yeah. I'm expecting this is something that's really exciting conceptually, but is only mildly interesting to laypeople.

 

[EBE]

Swamp gas.

 

[Turbowaffles]

We need a gif of the "I'm not saying it's Aliens, but it's Aliens" guy, but with the Ron Paul itshappening.gif effect.

 

[mnannola]

Human skeleton found. 500 years old. The entire world goes ballistic.

 

[smokeandmirrors]

That would be almost world changing news.

idk it would be more than "almost" world changing. Evidence of any kind of life on our next door neighbor? That would be one of the biggest discoveries of ever.

 

[dragonzdogma]

probably something water related.

or soil

 

[Ganzlinger]

It's happening!

 

[Sephzilla]

They found a sad and mopey Dr Manhattan.