Comments | alder_knight: "It's life, Jim, but not as we know it."

alder_knight

"It's life, Jim, but not as we know it."

Dec 04, 2010 13:33

This post got rejected from ontd_startrek. Wheeee! I mean, it's not really even about space... so whatever. ANYWAY:

NASA Finds New Life

Article excerpt:

"NASA's geobiologist Pamela Conrad thinks that the discovery is huge and "phenomenal," comparing it to the Star Trek episode in which the Enterprise crew finds Horta, a silicon-based alien life form that ( Read more... )

science: it works bitches, linkspam, the final frontier

Comments 6

gleeful_t December 5 2010, 00:09:01 UTC

Hands raised and clapped. That's adorable!!!

(Also not to be a ho but I don't know why they didn't accept this, it's trek-related and its not like there are a ton of other new posts going on...)

alder_knight December 5 2010, 20:39:36 UTC

Yeah, that was sort of my logic... comm's been kinda dead lately, this is vaguely Trek-related, yadda yadda. They said it was "too much of a stretch," so okay. It IS a stretch. Just thought it might be relevant to folks' interests. Glad it was to yours! :D

gleeful_t December 5 2010, 23:25:05 UTC

Definitely relevant! I can't believe they've only been looking for carbon-based life! I mean, didn't they even consider the Horta? Or those weird aliens from that bad Lost In Space movie version that I'm pretty sure at least had Gary Oldman in it as a redeeming factor? I'm going to need Dr. Sheldon Cooper to have an opinion about that on my television pretty soon.

capelia12 December 5 2010, 05:38:59 UTC

Love this article. I was hoping that they found the life on a different planet... Well, I guess Cali is ok too... :3

alder_knight December 5 2010, 20:50:31 UTC

THE SCIENTIST WHO HEADED THE RESEARCH IS AN OBERLIN DOUBLE-DEGREE HOMG.

POSTING THAT SHIT ASAP.

capelia12 December 5 2010, 22:37:17 UTC

I KNOW! ALSO, SHE MAJORED IN OBOE PERFORMANCE TOO. OBERLIN WIN!!! XD